The use of French and Creole in Louisiana has been on the decline for decades, although a number of initiatives and organizations are attempting to slow the slide and preserve the state’s unique ...
Swing Out from Vappie’s Creole Jazz Serenaders is an exuberant affair of traditional jazz loaded with sudden stops, quick changes, snappy high-hat cymbal snappings, clucking banjos and sailing trumpet ...
“7th Ward kisses the Mississippi where Esplanade begins & sashays her bottom at Lake Pontchartrain ... ” Those lines, from a poem called “7th Ward” by storyteller and former Louisiana poet laureate ...