Louisiana has always been a state that dances to its own beat. That beat might be a jazz brunch in Lake Charles, Cajun dance at a traditional pig roast in Baton Rouge, or swamp pop blasting out a ...

One thousand five hundred miles northeast of Lafayette is one of the nation’s newest Cajun and zydeco festivals. The Bayou Boogie, three days of dancing and camping in the rolling Connecticut hills, ...

At the 1996 Best of the Beat recognizing the best music of 1995, Gina Forsyth and Waylon Thibodeaux’s album Dans La Louisianne won as the best Cajun album. In her acceptance speech Gina Forsyth made ...

Marc Savoy is a Louisiana legend not only in Eunice but around the world. He has dedicated his life to preserving the Cajun culture through making instruments, holding jam sessions and maintaining a ...

JUPITER, Fla. — Celebrating the culture of Louisiana with Cajun food, music, and everything Bourbon Street. It’s happening this weekend at the 5th Annual Cajun Crawfish and Music Festival in Jupiter ...

Couples spin and turn, rocking back and forth, swinging apart and then dipping close. An accordion alternates its pumping pulse with a funky bass riff, forcing your shoulders to jump in time to the ...

A dance floor is a place of joy, where people have a chance to do more than listen to music — they can really experience it, adding their own creativity to the infectious beats that fill the air ...

QUICK -- when I say "Cajun and zydeco," what do you think of? If you said, "Blackened catfish," don't worry: There are many who are unfamiliar with two of American music's best-kept secrets. A show ...

In 18 years of full-time touring, the members of BeauSoleil have visited all 50 states and many foreign countries. But in 2004, they still encountered new sights and experiences. For the first time, ...

SHEFFIELD — According to Michael Doucet, Cajun music comes from a great many people and places — at its heart, an oral tradition of a stubborn French diaspora met with African, Native American and ...

JEFF DAVIS PARISH, La. (KPLC) - A legendary Southwest Louisiana Cajun musician died Sunday at age 96. Fiddler Ellis Vanicor founded his band, Ellis Vanicor and the Lacassine Playboys, in the 1940s and ...