Having been the leading ambassador for zydeco music since the late '70s, Stanley Dural Jr., better known as Buckwheat Zydeco, has become its pied piper as well through family concerts, including the ...

Stanley Dural was born in 1947 in Lafayette, La., a close-knit community where many black people express their Creole heritage by speaking French, and by playing and dancing to zydeco. This hybrid ...

Join in for a celebration of Zydeco music at the Vermont Zydeco Party. Two of area’s top Zydeco bands will bring their ...

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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 ...

The snap beans aren’t salted." "Zydeco" is rooted in R&B, rock ‘n’ roll and soul music, and indigenous to rural Southwest Louisiana, created by French-speaking, African Americans of Creole heritage.

"I'm Coming Home (To See My Mother)" opens with the sound of the instrument that connects Zydeco with other forms of music that originated in and around Louisiana: the accordion. It's followed by the ...

It's hard to find a picture of Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural without an accordion strapped to his chest. The instrument - the soul of Dural's beloved zydeco music - has been his constant companion for ...

Multi-Grammy Award winner and artist Terrance Simien has traveled all around the world sharing his music, from multiple countries including Ukraine and Africa, to all 50 states. He will be bringing ...

Andre Thierry’s journey to the forefront of the West Coast zydeco community began with an accordion in his grandmother’s closet. “She would get mad because I would sneak into the closet and play it, ...

Curley Taylor, dubbed “the P-Diddy of Zydeco” by Faith & Soul News Magazine, and his band Zydeco Trouble return to the Rockfish Grill with high-energy Cajun music at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 13. The ...

Stanley Dural, better known as Buckwheat Zydeco, realizes that many younger blacks along the Gulf Coast are skeptical about zydeco music. He appreciates that they think the music is for their parents ...