August 15th marked a meaningful day across Acadiana as communities gathered to celebrate National Acadian Day, honoring the descendants of French settlers who were exiled from Canada in the 18th ...

When Michael Doucet first tried to play the traditional French-language music of his native Southwest Louisiana for his fellow Cajuns, nobody was much interested. Doucet, an amateur musicologist at ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana's Cajun and Creole heritage takes center stage this weekend when the Festivals Acadiens et Creoles marks a half-century of honoring and celebrating the culture through ...

Chere Mom, a Cajun music band consisting of husband and wife, Wallace and Christine Law, their twins LeeAnn and Taylor Law and family member Emily Simon, have been chosen to travel with the Louisiana ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Southwest Louisiana town of Eunice has become a hotbed for Cajun music, and if you want to learn more about the legends of Cajun French music, you can see them all in a Hall ...

When Council for the Development of French in Louisiana Chairman James Domengeaux and a group of academics, activists and musicians decided to throw a concert celebrating Cajun music and culture in ...

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 ...

Gracie Babineaux needs no lectures on Cajun culture. Gracie and her sister, Julie, have played Cajun music across the United States and Europe as leaders of the Babineaux Sisters band. Gracie has ...

Louisiana musician D.L. Menard, a Grammy-nominated entertainer known to many as the “Cajun Hank Williams,” He was also the writer and original performer of the 1962 hit, “La Porte En Arrière” (“The ...

Linzay Young, fiddler and singer for Cajun band Red Stick Ramblers, was an anthropology major in college at Louisiana State University. Although he says he's "on hiatus" from his formal studies, he ...