Boozoo Chavis` conversation is like his music. Earthy, intense and proud, thoroughly honest, stubbornly individualistic and, in a completely charming way, quite cranky. Chavis, who made some of the ...

Stanley Dural, Jr., who, using his stage name of “Buckwheat Zydeco,” was a global ambassador for the Louisiana music genre of zydeco, died this morning (Sept. 24). He was 68. He was diagnosed with ...

In recent decades, zydeco has emerged to mingle on the margins of the mainstream. Its delightfully funky washboard rhythms and accordion riffs are regularly featured at festivals, certain ...

Clifton Chenier Centennial. In this centennial year of the birth of Clifton Chenier, many events and projects are celebrating the zydeco music pioneer and his international impact. Wednesday, June 25, ...

Are your band T-shirts a part of your pandemic work/weekend/constant wardrobe? In our "Concert TBTee" series every Thursday, we're asking the FUV airstaff to dig through their closets for the concert ...

Buckwheat Zydeco’s Creole sounds warmed the crisp autumn air in New Haven Tuesday night like a steamy breeze off the bayou. The group’s playful showmanship also warmed the crowd that came in from the ...

Zydeco accordionist and bandleader Keith Frank had a tough row of les haricots, so to speak, to hoe at New Orleans Jazz Fest early Sunday afternoon. The first half-hour or so of his set on the Fais Do ...

Coatney Raymond likes to joke that she was forced into the business of zydeco dance. Raymond was content to have small, acoustic music shows a few nights a week at her Breaux Bridge restaurant, Buck & ...

Zydeco is one of the more misunderstood musical genres in the national consciousness. Most people in places like Wisconsin and Boston and, often enough, right here in Houston, associate it strictly ...

Thanks to the government shutdown, Glen Echo Park has closed, and Saturday’s annual Dancing by the Bayou Festival of zydeco and Cajun music has relocated to Blob’s Park, a privately owned polka ...