They say every day is Mardi Gras inside the 106-year-old building in the Elizabeth neighborhood that houses the Cajun Queen restaurant on 7th Street. Besides the Cajun and Creole dishes served daily, ...

Cajun musician Zachary Richard has built a global career in French, and he would love to see more Louisianans do the same.

Festivals Acadiens et Créoles has showcased 51 years of Cajun, Creole culture. Here's why for some, it's their happy place.

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 ...

Festivals Acadiens et Creoles marks its 51st year Oct. 10-12 in Lafayette's Girard Park. The three-day event is celebration ...

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 ...

Cajun music is beloved for its accessibility. Whether young or old, armed with a fiddle or perhaps some rhythmic household tool — a pair of spoons or an old washboard in a pinch — all are welcome to ...

Dustin Dale Gaspard earns raves from the judges after his Cajun-style performance of "Bring It On Home to Me." ...

(AP) Members of the Cajun band T’Monde are young, but they like their music old. The band of 20-somethings opened the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Friday with century-old, fiddle-heavy Cajun ...

When traditional Cajun and Creole musicians take to the stage, one mark of their genius is how easy they make it look. Whether they are wielding an accordion, a fiddle, or some other folk instrument, ...

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 ...