One thousand five hundred miles northeast of Lafayette is one of the nation’s newest Cajun and zydeco festivals. The Bayou Boogie, three days of dancing and camping in the rolling Connecticut hills, ...
Forty years ago, a talented musician from the farming community of Lebeau, Louisiana released a song that defied easy categorization. "My Toot Toot," by Rockin' Sidney Simien, would go on to become an ...
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 ...
When the Lost Bayou Ramblers received a Grammy nomination in 2017 for their album "Kalenda," they were excited — but Louis Michot and his band members immediately started thinking about how much it ...
Terrance Simien will be kicking up a dance party with his Zydeco Experience on Saturday night, June 8, 2024, with an Iowa Arts Festival main stage concert in downtown Iowa City. The two-time Grammy ...
Having been the leading ambassador for zydeco music since the late '70s, Stanley Dural Jr., better known as Buckwheat Zydeco, has become its pied piper as well through family concerts, including the ...
ARNAUDVILLE, La. (KLFY) — Award-winning zydeco artist Chester “Tune” Chevalier, 81, died peacefully this morning at his home in Arnaudville surrounded by family and loved ones. Chevalier was a ...
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 ...
When someone says “with all due respect,” brace yourself. An insult is about to follow. But I don’t mean it as a putdown when I say to zydeco accordion players, with all due respect, you are no ...
When Slim’s Y-Ki-Ki Zydeco dance hall closed in Opelousas in 2016, it represented an end of an era. Not an end to listening to zydeco, certainly. Festivals, both local and worldwide, celebrate ...
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 ...
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