After slurping their way through Oyster Festival last weekend, New Orleans’ summer festers get ready to put on their dancing shoes and sweat it out at this weekend’s Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival, ...

A weekend celebrating Southwestern Louisiana musical traditions is coming to the Crescent City at the end of May.

A fusion of Louisiana accordion music with Afro-Caribbean rhythms, blues, and R&B, zydeco is the irresistibly toe-tapping music of the Black Creole community in rural Southwest Louisiana, often sung ...

Year 23 of the annual Bayou bash is adding a free Thursday night kickoff party and Saturday late-night set.

Louisiana doesn’t just have one festival season — it celebrates all year long. From Mardi Gras parades in winter to crawfish boils in spring, peach festivals in summer, and zydeco jams in fall, every ...

Louisiana is often referred to as the "Festival Capital of the World," earning this title because of the hundreds of festivals that take place annually throughout the state. More than 400 festivals ...

What is FÊTE and what do you do? FÊTE, which stands for Folk Education & Tradition Exchange, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and teaching the traditional music, dance, and cultural ...

Jourdan Thibodeaux, who has been hailed as the future of Cajun music, will perform today and Saturday at The Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua. Courtesy photo The CBS News show “60 Minutes” recently ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zydeco, a music genre created by the Black Creole community, has flourished in Southwest Louisiana and beyond, inspiring musicans ...