At the end of August, Opelousas, LA, the proclaimed zydeco capital of the world, will host the 37th Annual Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival. Since the first festival was held in 1982 ...

For years, the Maple Leaf Bar was one of the only places to hear authentic Cajun and zydeco music in New Orleans. Then Rock ‘n’ Bowl took up the mantle with its ongoing Thursday Zydeco Night series.

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 ...

Each year the Zydeco Extravaganza draws in hundreds of people from all over, to watch some of the greatest zydeco musicians. People broke out their hats and dancing boots, and two-stepped the night ...