The marshy interior of southern Louisiana is home to a cuisine, language and sound all its own. Today, Cajun and Zydeco music, often sung in French, is enjoying a renaissance.

Cynthia Simien is also an agent and booking manager who has long worked with her husband to promote Louisiana music worldwide ...

Fifth-grade band students from Port Arthur Elementary Schools learned about Zydeco music and the cultures behind it at the Museum of the Gulf Coast’s Zydeco photography exhibit on Tuesday.

The zydeco music stems mainly from southwest Louisiana ... "That stuff had an influence on the way I sang, and the way I played accordion. That's the kind of music I grew up on.

The accordion arrived with some part of the ... (music) I did all my Zydeco. (music) That's the Zydeco sound. (music) Now watch your waltz. Take it to the Cajun. (music) You hear that?

To mark the 100th anniversary of zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier, Smithsonian Folkways will release a box set on Arhoolie ...

is one of Zydeco's most popular musicians and he's a master of the accordion. "Zydeco music is a happy, festive music. It's the type of music that makes you move. It's paired with a dance," Rideau ...

Pookie learned the accordion while sitting at his grandfather’s feet ... thousands of zydeco dancers stir up the dust at the Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival, five miles down the ...

"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 ...

a south-central Louisiana town that — thanks largely to him — is now known as the birthplace of zydeco. He learned to play the accordion from his mother and began performing music ...

This weekend, Ardoin and the Zydeco Kingz kick off the music at the third annual NOLA ... was the grandson of Bois Sec and learned to play accordion from the legendary musician, but he passed ...