Along with Jason Frey in Lagniappe, Travis Matte was an integral part of the outstanding À la Vieille Manière album that notched several CFMA Awards in 2001. That was Matte’s last totally trad Cajun ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Jourdan Thibodeaux et les Rôdailleurs will be bringing the Cajun French music and culture to the 40th Festival International de Louisiane. Jourdan Thibodeaux et les Rôdailleurs ...

Couples spin and turn, rocking back and forth, swinging apart and then dipping close. An accordion alternates its pumping pulse with a funky bass riff, forcing your shoulders to jump in time to the ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Hundreds of people came out to enjoy the Cajun bands and danced along to the tunes of the 38th annual Cajun Music and Food Festival. Chloe Craner says she is the youngest ...

Every Sunday for the past 25 years and 10 months, Cajun singer and songwriter Ivy Dugas left his home in Vinton at 8:30 a.m. and headed east on Interstate 10 for the one-hour and 40-minute drive to ...

Musicians — who depend on live audiences as much as they do — have been especially hard hit by the pandemic. Perhaps nowhere has this been felt more acutely than in South Louisiana, where music lies ...

SHEFFIELD — According to Michael Doucet, Cajun music comes from a great many people and places — at its heart, an oral tradition of a stubborn French diaspora met with African, Native American and ...