NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Members of the Cajun band T'Monde are young, but they like their music old. The band of 20-somethings opened the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Friday with century-old, ...

The Rolling Stones’ reverence for blues and country is as well-established as Keith Richards’ penchant for scarves. But you may not immediately associate the band with zydeco, the French-sung, ...

OPELOUSAS, La. (KLFY) — The Opelousas Museum unveiled a Zydeco exhibit on Friday, August 8, showcasing the vibrant culture and history of Zydeco music. The exhibit features the work of photographer ...

LAFAYETTE La. (KLFY) — Members of the community are mourning the death of Lafayette native, and Zydeco legend, Lynn August. August lost his eyesight at an early age, but his love for creole musical ...

ST. LANDRY PARISH — The sounds of washboards and accordions will once again fill Opelousas this weekend as the 43rd Annual Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival returns with a full lineup ...

Zydeco music may be the one setting in which the accordion is considered a cool instrument. The accordion, along with the washboard and the fiddle, will be , during the Zydeco Swamp Romp on Saturday, ...

Born Stanley Dural, Jr. (1947-2016), the artist known as Buckwheat Zydeco cut his musical teeth in the 1970s performing as an organist with zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier. Dural would spend the next ...

Oh, the irony.Zydeco zealot Terrance Simien, a Louisiana native, was playing the Bourbon Street Music Club in Sao Paulo, Brazil, when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. “We dodged the bullet,” he said ...

Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural Jr., the accordionist and ambassador of zydeco music who performed under the stage name Buckwheat Zydeco, died Saturday following a battle with lung cancer. He was 68. “It is ...

Musician Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr., who rose from a cotton-picking family in southwest Louisiana to introduce zydeco music to the world through his namesake band Buckwheat Zydeco, has died. He was ...

The options for live music in New Orleans the week of March 5-11 include the 13th edition of an indoor Southern soul and blues festival, the start of a popular free springtime music festival, and a ...