The 2019 CFMA Annual Cajun Awards and Music Festival is continuing today at the Rayne Civic Center. The event is held by the Cajun French Music Association. The event features an awards ceremony ...

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 ...

The CBS News show “60 Minutes” recently proclaimed Jourdan Thibodeaux “Cajun music’s equivalent of a rock star,” saying he has become “something of a global ambassador for Cajun country and its way of ...

BASILE, La. (WVUE) - The flat land of Southwest Louisiana’s Cajun prairie is famous for a few things -- its rice fields, crawfish farms, spicy food and music. And also, for a certain restaurant, ...

Doug Kershaw’s autobiographical “Louisiana Man” was a career-defining Top 10 hit that’s since become an Americana standard. Credit: Creative Commons / David Simpson cajunzydecophotos Legendary Cajun ...

The idea that this country has become one big, bland, conformist culture, the United States of generica? Well, if you're in search of a counterpoint, hang out, as we did, in the marshy interior of ...

JENNINGS, La. — Registration is open for the seventh annual “Battle of the Bows” Cajun Fiddle Competition. The competition is open to all Cajun-style fiddle playing. This year’s event will be held ...

When you Ann Savoy, you say quite a lot. Multi-instrumentalist. Singer. Author. Documentarian. And it’s with those qualifications that you’ll find Savoy moderating the Women Song Collectors: ...

Who is the record-holder for the most performances at Tipitina’s? Cajun singer, songwriter and accordionist Bruce Daigrepont. By a wide margin. He’s graced the stage at 501 Napoleon Ave. approximately ...

In the stress and complexity of modern life, there’s always room for music that feels cleansing and unspoiled, which is most certainly why many of the pop fans who loved the Buena Vista Social Club ...