If not for Rita Colligan Manuel's camera and abiding passion for zydeco, this dynamic music native to the Texas and Louisiana Gulf coasts might have remained more of a mystery than it already is.

Before 1982, the words “zydeco” and “festival” were never used in the same sentence. The Creole accordion dance music had already migrated from the rural house dances of southwest Louisiana to clubs ...

San Diego’s four-day Gator by the Bay festival will celebrate its 21st anniversary next Thursday through May 12 with more than 100 performances celebrating an array of homegrown American roots-music ...

If fans of southwest Louisiana music listen closely to pop icon Beyoncé's new album, they may notice hints of something familiar: zydeco. The 27-track "Act II: Cowboy Carter," released Friday, has ...

Lafayette Parish middle school students enjoyed a lively musical experience as legendary Zydeco musician Chubby Carrier performed for them. Carrier, a Grammy Award winner, visited ...

When you're known as the King of Zydeco music, like the late Clifton Chenier was, it only makes sense that other recording legends would want to honor you. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ZYDECO SONT PAS SALES") ...

SCOTT, La. (KLFY) — Award-winning Zydeco musician Chubby Carrier visited French Immersion students in Scott to help them appreciate Louisiana’s Zydeco traditions. As a teaching artist with the ...

OPELOUSAS, La. (KLFY) — The life and career of a legendary Acadiana musician will be celebrated in Opelousas in April. The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame has announced it will induct Roy Carrier. The ...

Corey Ledet wrote an album to help him learn Kouri-Vini. Growing up, the zydeco musician would hear the older members of his family speaking a Louisiana Creole dialect called Kouri-Vini while visiting ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Musician Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr., who rose from a cotton-picking family in southwest Louisiana to introduce zydeco music to the world through his namesake band Buckwheat ...