Growing up in the 1950s in Lafayette, La., Stanley Dural Jr. was surrounded by zydeco, that fast-tempo Cajun music propelled by the accordion. His father, a close friend of zydeco king Clifton Chenier ...

Sean Ardoin has been on a mission to mainstream zydeco music, and he's hoping his Tuesday performance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" will help. The two-time Grammy nominee will perform three ...

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 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.

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 ...

Zydeco musician Jeffery Broussard releases a new album, "Bayou Moonlight," blending traditional Creole music with New Orleans brass influences. Broussard, raised in a musical family, learned to play ...

CAROL POPLE (CENTER) played a borrowed frottoir as Terrance Simien (at the mike) and his Zydeco Experience band brought a shot of energy to Port Angeles on Saturday. Carol is with the Juan de Fuca ...

Buckwheat Zydeco’s longtime manager and producer Ted Fox reflects on launching zydeco’s first major label release. “I was a senior editor [at Audio magazine] and I started getting into zydeco. Audio ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Sixteen-year-old Rosie did not want to go to this party, even if it involved dancing and live music. It was her parents’ crowd, for heaven’s sake. She listened to rock ‘n’ roll, not ...

OPELOUSAS, La. (WAFB) It’s high energy home-grown music, that grew out of the Cajun Prairie of southwest Louisiana. The rhythmic rub board is part of the trademark sound of Zydeco. “It started in the ...