Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tallahassee likes it hot, and Swamp Stomp is proof of that with the 47th year of this iconic music festival, where folk, blues, ...

Any given Saturday in Miami the bass, sweat, sex, liquor, music, and dancing flood the concrete tropics like a hurricane on South Beach. This year a bigger, better Swamp Stomp shook the wooden ...

Ever done the Swamp Stomp? And nah, dude, it ain’t a muddy-ass dance. We’re talkin’ about the totally homegrown 2,000 person-strong music festival that “started as a killer backyard barbecue with a ...

AS a New Orleans anesthesiologist, Dr. Ira Padnos puts people to sleep. But as music impresario “Dr. Ike,” he wakes them up. The 42-year-old doctor is the man behind the Big Easy’s annual Ponderosa ...

Preserving Cajun culture and the land it developed on goes hand-in-hand in the bayou area as shown by the annual Louisiana Swamp Stomp Festival. Each year, the Cajun Music Preservation Society raises ...

The Swamp Stomp String Band are not your average Americana band. Twangy Banjos, driving Guitars, scratchy washboards and a thudding Double Bass sit behind anything from drinking songs that will have ...