The marshy interior of southern Louisiana is home to a cuisine, language and sound all its own. Today, Cajun and Zydeco music ...

A few months ago, Joel Savoy, the Louisiana Cajun musician and label owner, was at a local pressing plant looking over the cover art for a just-finished tribute album to zydeco legend Clifton ...

When I started in 1979 with the King of Zydeco, Clifton Chenier, I could count on one hand about five accordion players playing zydeco music and that's it. "Now, you got 500. Ain't five no more!" ...

The carefully researched biography is a vivid telling of Chenier's rise from his southwest Louisiana country roots to ...

The Stones, Williams, Charley Crockett, and more salute the zydeco accordionist, who would’ve turned 100 this year, on a new tribute album ...

Multiple Grammy Award winner Terrance Simien developed his unique Louisiana-style creole music as a teenager.

Chances to hear live zydeco music in this area were rare a few short years ago. But today, as the popularity of the high-energy dance music has spread beyond its Southwest Louisiana home, zydeco ...

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 root… ...

Rodricka Stevens LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)– Local and well-known Zydeco band Dwayne Dopsie and The Hellraisers has a 2024 Grammy nomination for Best Regional Roots Music Album.

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 ...

When someone gifts music genres born in the state — like zydeco, Cajun, swamp pop and jazz — they're putting money in the pockets of a neighbor, friend and maybe even a family member. While ...

A longtime journalist covering Louisiana music and culture, he lives in Opelousas. His “Zydeco Stomp” show airs at noon Saturdays on KRVS 88.7 FM.