With Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the rearview mirror, are you still searching for that perfect present for a special someone? Give the gift of Louisiana music. The time is right as the Year of ...

Two of the finest roots music fiddle players in the world — Louisiana’s Michael Doucet of BeauSoleil and Berkeley’s Tom Rigney — have joined forces in one of the hottest Cajun music CDs projects of ...

In some people’s eyes, Horace Trahan is the Great White Hope Gone Bad. At Trahan’s debut, Cajun music fans had never heard 50-year-old classics sung with such power and grace. Especially from an ...

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, ...

New Orleans singer and fiddler Amanda Shaw felt the best way to mark 2020, a year that includes her 30th birthday on Aug. 2 and is her 20th year as a working musician, would be to celebrate the roots ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 18, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. The idea that this country has become one big, bland, conformist culture, the United ...

An accordion virtuoso and a gifted vocalist, he scored country hits in the 1980s by putting a Cajun spin on songs like Richard Thompson’s “Tear-Stained Letter.” By Bill Friskics-Warren Jo-El Sonnier, ...

The northern Michigan band that’s energized audiences and dancers with its Great Lakes State twist on zydeco and Cajun music for 24 years has overcome obstacles that would have felled many a lesser ...

I’ll never forget the Facebook message from David Faulk last January. It was one of those late-night surprises that I looked at three times to make sure I was reading it right. Cajun music legend ...