NEW ORLEANS — 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 music, ...

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: ...

This year’s festival celebrates 90 years of “Jolie Blonde” and other female characters and performers. LAFAYETTE, La. – An iconic symbol of the female influence on Cajun and Creole music, what we know ...

Fifty years ago, residents of southwest Louisiana had a slightly different relationship with the region's traditional Cajun and Creole music. Fiddles, accordions and French songs would regularly fill ...

Two unique workshops centered on Southwest Louisiana's popular music genres, Cajun and Zydeco, will be presented at this year's Spice & Music Festival scheduled for June 4-6, 2010 in historic downtown ...

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 ...

The world's largest free Cajun and Creole music festival returns to Lafayette this spring. Festivals Acadiens et Créoles will be hosting two festivals in 2022 with the theme "The Great Return" or "Le ...

You can't resist it. Whether the gumbo and étouffée are simmering on the burner, the sounds of southwest Louisiana are enough to send vibrant souls scurrying to the dance floor to jump and shout and ...

Things are looking fairly dire on the Louisiana coast right now, but the Cajun Creole Music Festival should be a reminder of the region’s vitality. Two stages of Cajun and blues music complement a ...

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 ...

An iconic symbol of the female influence on Cajun and Creole music, what we know today as "Jolie Blonde" was first recorded as "Ma blonde est partie" in 1929 by the Breaux Brothers. Ninety years later ...