August 15th marked a meaningful day across Acadiana as communities gathered to celebrate National Acadian Day, honoring the descendants of French settlers who were exiled from Canada in the 18th ...

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 ...

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 ...

This weeks Acadiana Music Spotlight features Breaux Bridge native and Grammy nominated musician, Brazos Huval. In St. Martin Parish, music instructor Brazos Huval is preserving this culture by ...

Karl Smelker playing with Mudbug Zydeco. The Mississippi River, now reined in by levees, once flowed wild and boundless. The river wound its way through towns whose residents — perhaps inspired by its ...

The 2019 CFMA Annual Cajun Awards and Music Festival is continuing today at the Rayne Civic Center. The event is held by the Cajun French Music Association. The event features an awards ceremony ...

When Council for the Development of French in Louisiana Chairman James Domengeaux and a group of academics, activists and musicians decided to throw a concert celebrating Cajun music and culture in ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS — A song the writer's bandleader hated has become one of Cajun music's all-time greatest hits, and the writer's home town saluted him and the song's 55th anniversary July 2. More: Cajun ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Southwest Louisiana town of Eunice has become a hotbed for Cajun music, and if you want to learn more about the legends of Cajun French music, you can see them all in a Hall ...

Louisiana musician D.L. Menard, a Grammy-nominated entertainer known to many as the “Cajun Hank Williams,” He was also the writer and original performer of the 1962 hit, “La Porte En Arrière” (“The ...

Fans know the late D.L. Menard, who died early Thursday at age 85 after a long illness, for The Back Door, a 55-year-old, million-selling Cajun two-step song that still fills dance floors on its ...