I got to a friend’s house later than expected for dinner Tuesday evening because I was having a tough time with my column. In general, I told her what it was about. My friend called me a curmudgeon. I ...

On today’s episode of Louisiana Considered, we hear when and where to get the latest COVID-19 booster shot. We also learn about a new documentary on the history of Cajun music and listen as former U.S ...

“If there was one musician today you could say poured the foundation for what we know today as Cajun music and zydeco, it would be Amédé Ardoin.” -Herman Fuselier, executive director, St. Landry ...

Decades ago, if people wanted to hear Cajun or Zydeco music, they had to go to a dancehall or a bar, or they heard it at home. It was not until Festivals Acadiens et Créoles, the original and largest ...

EVANGELINE PARISH — "It is a unique festival, we celebrate our traditional Cajun music,” says volunteer TJ Landreneau—and the memories are everywhere you look. Preparations are underway for this ...

Amidst shuttered rural dance clubs and encroaching globalization, five Grammy Award-winning Cajun musicians push the music of their ancestors forward with the hopes of keeping their culture alive. But ...

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: ...

Over 100 years ago this month, Congress approved the act that would soon make prohibition the law of the land. While some Louisianans supported the so-called “noble experiment,” most were unhappy with ...

A Houma TV producer is taking the unique culture of the Houma-Thibodaux area and south Louisiana to a broader audience. The Cajun Culture Channel, the product of Houma native Jaime Johnson, is found ...

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 ...