LAVA's Music on the Mountain series will feature a dance party with music by Black Leather Zydeco this Sunday. Black Leather Zydeco performs the dance music of southwestern Louisiana. Derived from the ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Cajun culture runs deep in Acadiana, and it’s taught from a young age. Louisiana Folk Roots wants to be a part of teaching the culture to children. They will be holding two ...

"I'm Coming Home (To See My Mother)" opens with the sound of the instrument that connects Zydeco with other forms of music that originated in and around Louisiana: the accordion. It's followed by the ...

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 ...

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Early in her career, the 30-year-old Zydeco performer was booked at a club whose owner was booking her for his own amusement — but not entertainment. "He had booked us as a joke," she recalled. "He ...

Fifth-grade band students from Port Arthur Elementary Schools learned about Zydeco music and the cultures behind it at the Museum of the Gulf Coast’s Zydeco photography exhibit on Tuesday. Despite ...

Stanley Dural Jr., known to the world as Buckwheat Zydeco, is music’s best-selling zydeco artist. Following six Grammy nominations, the Carencro singer and accordion and organ player’s 2009 album, ...

Although 27-year-old Alphonse Ardoin is the great-grandson of pioneering Creole accordionist and singer Alphonse “Bois Sec” Ardoin, he didn’t grow up immersed in that musical legacy. The younger ...