Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Warren Perrin, lawyer and founder of the Acadian Museum in Erath, tells the story of how the Acadian people came to the U.S. and ...

A Cajun radio station in South Louisiana has been broadcasting for 69 years. It's preserving the culture and the tradition of broadcasting live music from a bar every Saturday morning. There's a ...

The festival featured several live musical acts, an auction, and some of Southwest Louisiana’s best Cajun food.

Juliet Varnedoe has a unique American jazz voice sharing the joie de vivre of the Cajun people. New York-based singer songwriter Juliet Varnedoe developed her musical foundation in the bayou lands of ...

In 1956, Earlene Broussard Echeverria, an Acadian of Vermilion Parish, attended her first day of school and did not know a word of English. With recent controversy over immigration and the English ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Cajun music sings in the hearts of many in Southwest Louisiana and seven people were inducted into the Cajun French Music Hall of Fame Sunday. The morning was filled with ...

On Louisiana Considered, we take a trip to Fred’s Lounge, a world-famous bar that offers visitors music, dancing and a Cajun French radio broadcast. We also learn why many doctors in states with new ...

VILLE PLATTE, La.— By 8:30 Saturday morning, the red-brick tavern called Fred's Lounge is already filled with rice farmers, bikers from New Orleans and wide-eyed French tourists ready to party. Some ...

Every Thursday evening, a group of about 10 students gathers at Houma's Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum with workbooks and hefty language dictionaries. They practice speaking to each other in local ...

Because they want to speak and keep the language of Cajun French alive, a group called The French Table gathers once a month in a study room at the West Feliciana Parish to speak, study and share.

Dustin Dale Gaspard brought something incredibly unique to The Voice. On the Oct. 6 episode of Blind Auditions, the 33-year-old from rural Louisiana wowed the coaches with a performance that he ...