It seems improbable, but it's true. L'Angelus, a brother and two sisters from Lafayette, La., who play Cajun music with Irish roots, got their start singing with their mother at the Urban Stampede in ...

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 ...

Marc Savoy is a Louisiana legend not only in Eunice but around the world. He has dedicated his life to preserving the Cajun culture through making instruments, holding jam sessions and maintaining a ...

Jennings, LA (KPLC) - If learning how to play traditional Cajun music is on your bucket list, you’re in luck! A spot in Jennings holds bi-weekly jam sessions and is open for anyone to join in. Behind ...

This week on American Routes Shortcuts, we revisit a 2002 conversation with the band Feufollet. Multi-instrumentalist Chris Stafford passed away in May 2024. He was 36. On the Cajun side of French ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s Cajun and Creole heritage takes center stage this weekend when the Festivals Acadiens et Creoles marks a half-century of honoring and celebrating the culture through ...

Accordion players Marc Savoy and Corey Ledet are musicians in South Louisiana who play traditional Cajun and Zydeco music. Some bands are struggling to survive and missing the culture that they help ...

Doucet, 70, was born into a Cajun family of musicians, learned banjo at 6, guitar at 8 and was in a Cajun rock band with his cousin Zachary Richard at 12. But, importantly, he said, he began to absorb ...

"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 ...

Musicians — who depend on live audiences as much as they do — have been especially hard hit by the pandemic. Perhaps nowhere has this been felt more acutely than in South Louisiana, where music lies ...