On a bright and humid afternoon in early May, Louisiana musicians gathered on the barn-like Fais Do-Do stage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival to celebrate royalty: Clifton Chenier, the ...

On July 22, 1982, the first Southwest Original Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival took place in a soybean field in the outskirts ...

Louisiana musician Clifton Chenier would have been 100 on June 25, and a new tribute album featuring The Rolling Stones ...

The late Clifton Chenier, Zydeco pioneer known for his Creole-inspired sound rooted in blues, Cajun and R&B, is being bolstered by the music community ...

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 ...

Buckwheat Zydeco - accordion, Hammond organ. 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 ...

Richmond-based Andre Thierry’s life as a professional accordion player and music educator specializing in zydeco is not just a career; it’s a calling. The Washington Post called Richmond-based ...

201 La Valse de Amities / Amadé Ardoin, Dennis McGee. Accordion,Fiddle. French language 202 Les Blues de Voyages / Amadé Ardoin, Dennis McGee. Accordion,Fiddle. French language 203 Corn Bread Rough / ...

One of a small handful of women in Zydeco, accordion player and singer Rosie Ledet has been enjoying year after year of success. Her warm stage presence combined with the infectious Zydeco beat ...

About 5:15 p.m., the rain started falling hard for about a half-hour. Workers pulled out tarps to cover gear and people at the folklife stage, where members of Nathan and ...

Houstonians can celebrate Zydeco at festivals across the region this year with music, dancing and food. Zydeco music evolved from an acoustic folk idiom known as “la-la” in the 1920s ...