EVANGELINE PARISH — "It is a unique festival, we celebrate our traditional Cajun music,” says volunteer TJ Landreneau—and the memories are everywhere you look. Preparations are underway for this ...

Jerry Devillier started playing the harmonica at just five years old and developed a love for the instrument at a young age. Le Musee in Iota honored Devillier for his many awards and volunteer work ...

“Roots of Fire,” a captivating documentary film highlighting a group of musicians in Louisiana dedicated to preserving and honoring the legacy of Cajun music, is set to be widely released on May 7, ...

Decades ago, if people wanted to hear Cajun or Zydeco music, they had to go to a dancehall or a bar, or they heard it at home. It was not until Festivals Acadiens et Créoles, the original and largest ...

Over 100 years ago this month, Congress approved the act that would soon make prohibition the law of the land. While some Louisianans supported the so-called “noble experiment,” most were unhappy with ...

Couples spin and turn, rocking back and forth, swinging apart and then dipping close. An accordion alternates its pumping pulse with a funky bass riff, forcing your shoulders to jump in time to the ...

Born near Church Point, Louisiana to a farming family, Iry LeJeune (1928-1955), near blind from birth, turned to music as a young child. It was his cousin, Angeles LeJeune, who first introduced him to ...

Louisiana's Grammy-nominated Cajun musician Al Berard, and his Cajun Mandolin Band will bring a new expression of Cajun music to the Hooker Dunham Theater, 139 Main Street, in downtown Brattleboro, on ...

Louisiana has always been a state that dances to its own beat. That beat might be a jazz brunch in Lake Charles, Cajun dance at a traditional pig roast in Baton Rouge, or swamp pop blasting out a ...

Every once in a while, The Voice gets a unique talent unlike anyone they've ever had, and Monday night’s Blind Auditions produced such a distinctive artist with the appearance of 33-year-old Dustin ...