And listen for music from "Gitane Cajun," BeauSoleil\'s first CD for Vanguard Records and its first studio recording in five years.Recorded in five days at Dockside Studios in Milton, La., the CD ...

The Music Box Village is an unlikely habitat for a Cajun band. The surreal shantytown, with structures built from salvaged materials that function as improvised instruments, is the ultimate ...

Many musicians would be just fine with earning the kind of success seen by Lost Bayou Ramblers. The Grammy-winning Cajun band melded brothers Louis and Andre Michot’s traditional music heritage with ...

Drums Across Cajun Field will feature some the nation’s best high school and college musicians from ten different drums and bugles corps. The event, in its eighth year, will be held at 7 p.m. July 21 ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - All day Saturday, Southwest Louisiana let the good time roll at the annual Cajun Music and Food Festival. “It started as a small organization here in Lake Charles and it’s ...

It’s early on a Wednesday night at Charlie O’s in Montpelier, but you wouldn’t know it to look at the dance floor. It’s already filled with couples two-stepping to driving rhythm guitar and drums, ...

"I'm Coming Home (To See My Mother)" opens with the sound of the instrument that connects Zydeco with other forms of music that originated in and around Louisiana: the accordion. It's followed by the ...

Like a lot of New Orleans events making their comeback after the pandemic-prompted pause of 2020, the annual Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival looks a little different this year. The festival, which is ...

Karl Smelker playing with Mudbug Zydeco. The Mississippi River, now reined in by levees, once flowed wild and boundless. The river wound its way through towns whose residents — perhaps inspired by its ...

When most people picture Mardi Gras, they think of parades, beads, and Louisiana's Most Famed Street, a vibrant adult playground of unique entertainment. In rural Louisiana, however, smaller cities ...