Grammy-award winning Cajun fiddler Louis Michot is headed to New Orleans for a solo performance. The member of the Lost Bayou Ramblers will combine his love of Louisiana French music with new boundary ...

WHITTINGTON — A slice of Southern Illinois will be transformed into the Louisiana bayou this weekend during the Cajun Festival at Pheasant Hollow Winery in Whittington. The two-day event opens 6 p.m.

Born in Church Point in 1929, Ellis Vanicor's Cajun sound would become indelibly linked with a little community smack in the middle of Jennings and Lake Charles — Lacassine. A self-taught fiddler, ...

When "60 Minutes" came to the Lafayette area last fall to film a segment on Cajun and zydeco music, they were confronted with the energy of a thriving cultural scene. CBS correspondent Jon Wertheim ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (WAFB) - I first heard the young Cajun band Feufollet 12 years ago playing in Lafayette. Their lyrics were sung in French, but there was a youthful energy and a new twist on a familiar ...

ABBEVILLE, LA - The sounds of Cajun music echoed through the streets of downtown Abbeville on Saturday as crowds gathered to celebrate Le Grand Réveil Acadien or The Great Acadian Awakening, a ...

The late Clifton Chenier, Zydeco pioneer known for his Creole-inspired sound rooted in blues, Cajun and R&B, is being bolstered by the music community on his 100th birthday. To mark the occasion and ...

Cajun music is rooted in the songs and fiddle tunes of the Acadians—French speakers who migrated from France to Canada in the seventeenth century, and from Canada to Louisiana in the eighteenth ...

Colinda (Cheese Read)--Tu peux cogner (Mrs. Odeus Gullory)--Grand Texas (Chuck Guillory)--unk--Contredanse de Mamou--T es petit mais t'es mignonne (Cheese Read)--Le danse de Mardi Gras-- unk--Le ...