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, ...

Jerry Devillier started playing the harmonica at just five years old and developed a love for the instrument at a young age. Le Musee in Iota honored Devillier for his many awards and volunteer work ...

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 ...

For more than 40 years, BeauSoleil bandleader Michael Doucet has been carrying on a musical tradition that once was in danger of extinction. When he started studying and playing Cajun music in the ...

JENNINGS, La. (KPLC) - A time-honored Cajun tradition is returning to Jeff Davis Parish. Founded by Dwayne Cootes, members of the Southwest Louisiana Cajun Music Jam and Jeff Davis Parish Tourist ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Environmental portraits of Cajun musicians, often taken in their homes, usually showing them with their instruments, typically accordions, violins ...

Sheryl and Russell Cormier of Carencro gave new meaning to a proverb attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt: “Behind every great man, there’s a great woman.” ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 18, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. The idea that this country has become one big, bland, conformist culture, the United ...

As the U.S. Semiquincentennial nears, Southeast Texas communities celebrate Cajun culture through language and music.

Doris Leon Menard was born on April 14, 1932, in Erath, Louisiana. The only child of a Cajun farming couple, Menard learned to play the guitar as a teenager and performed at Louisiana clubs from a ...