The 2025 dates spanned October 10 through 11, 17 through 18, and 24 through 25, offering three weekends of oompah bands, ...

John Fogerty, Linda Ronstadt, Richard Thompson, and Patty Griffin are among the artists who have contributed songs, in French, to "Evangeline Made: A Tribute to Cajun Music." Due March 5 from… By ...

The CBS News show “60 Minutes” recently proclaimed Jourdan Thibodeaux “Cajun music’s equivalent of a rock star,” saying he has become “something of a global ambassador for Cajun country and its way of ...

The idea that this country has become one big, bland, conformist culture, the United States of generica? Well, if you're in search of a counterpoint, hang out, as we did, in the marshy interior of ...

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 ...

HOUMA — After working a 54-hour week, Bobby Richard wakes up hours before dawn every Saturday morning to log another seven hours on the clock. But Richard, who runs two specialty-music shows weekends ...

This Louisiana Cajun café is winning hearts with its unforgettable crawfish étouffée, a dish so flavorful that guests can’t ...

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 ...

This year, there's a new category at the Grammys: Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album. A young band from Louisiana called The Pine Leaf Boys received a nomination for its second album, Blues de Musicien.

Radio station KBON and musicians close to the family are reporting Cajun music legend Belton Richard has died. Richard, who was born in 1939, had been recently hospitalized with pneumonia. Funeral ...

D.L. Menard was born Doris Leon Menard on April 14, 1932, in Erath, La., and first picked up a guitar at age 16. For much of his life, music-making wasn't enough to sustain his family. He wrote "La ...