JENNINGS, La. — Registration is open for the seventh annual “Battle of the Bows” Cajun Fiddle Competition. The competition is open to all Cajun-style fiddle playing. This year’s event will be held ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - A great way to get people together is through music, and that is exactly what Battle of the Bows accomplished. Battle of the Bows is a competition that is meant to spread ...

Louisiana French music is most associated with the Fiddle. These days, Louisiana French music is infused with the sounds of several key instruments, including the guitar, the accordion, and more. But ...

JENNINGS, La. (KPLC) - If you’re a fan of Cajun music, then make your way down to the Battle of The Bows Cajun fiddle contest where players of all ages come together to share a bond of Cajun culture ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. An impassioned ambassador for Cajun music and culture, fiddler and singer Dewey Balfa (1927-1992) was a driving force in the revival of ...

Two of the finest roots music fiddle players in the world — Louisiana’s Michael Doucet of BeauSoleil and Berkeley’s Tom Rigney — have joined forces in one of the hottest Cajun music CDs projects of ...

When Michael Doucet first tried to play the traditional French-language music of his native Southwest Louisiana for his fellow Cajuns, nobody was much interested. Doucet, an amateur musicologist at ...

In last year’s Wheeler Opera House performance, Louisiana’s Beausoleil played its Cajun fiddle music with few twists. But on “Gitane Cajun,” purportedly an homage to a trio of deceased Louisiana ...