LAFAYETTE, La. — I once thought that the height of human creative achievement was embodied in the plays of William Shakespeare or the paintings of Claude Monet. That was before I experienced a zydeco ...

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 ...

Coffee County Commissioner Kim Ellis, center, plays the washboard with Lafourche Cajun Band member Marty Cortez, left, and Weevil 101 Blues Power Radio Show's Gil Anthony during a main stage ...

This family friendly festival has fun written all over it! The Inaugural Indiana Cajun/Zydeco Crawfish Festival is coming to Bill Monroe Music Park & Campground on Friday, May 20 and Saturday, 21, ...

Advocate Photo by LEE CELANO - Brazos Huval, on stand-up bass, leads a Beginning Cajun guitar class as Lee Roberts looks on during the 2015 Dewey Balfa Cajun and Creole Week at Vermilionville, where ...

HOUMA — As afternoon began to stretch toward evening, the halls at Fletcher Technical Community College filled with strains of Cajun music. Fiddler Waylon Thibodeaux and four other musicians gathered ...

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 ...