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 ...

Balfa Week is all about learning to appreciate Louisiana’s Cajun and Creole culture and play the music. After a three-year break due to COVID-19, the 20th Dewey Balfa Cajun & Creole Heritage Week is ...

For Leyla McCalla's 17th birthday, her father gave her a book of Langston Hughes' poetry. McCalla, a multi-instrumentalist and classically trained cellist, bought anthologies of his work and read any ...

It is most assuredly festival weather in south Louisiana, and oh what a weekend of music will rock St. Tammany on Nov. 1 and ...

HARTFORD – Lewis and Clark State Historic Site will host a special program on the unique French Creole culture of Illinois as historian and musician Dennis Stroughmatt will use folk tales and fiddle ...

With tunes straight out of Louisiana and Illinois, Dennis Stroughmatt et l’Esprit Creole will perform a Valley Folk Music concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the First Methodist Church auditorium (144 ...

One Chinese legend says the accordion is as old as music itself, that around 3,000 B.C., Emperor Huang Ti sent a scholar into the Western mountains charged with reproducing the song of the phoenix.

In a crowded dance hall, couples are two-stepping their cowboy boots over a well-worn wood floor as a singer belts out tunes in French over strains of upbeat accordion and down-home washboard. It's a ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Lowell Folk Festival announced the latest round of talented musicians from ...

LOWELL, Massachusetts – The Lowell Folk Festival announced the latest round of talented musicians from across the country that will grace four stages during the 2022 Lowell Folk Festival. Celebrating ...