He picked out a zydeco favorite by the late legend Boozoo Chavis and a Creole number to perform in the fourth annual Big Squeeze competition, a Texas-wide showdown of young accordion talent.

Object Details editor Simonett, Helena Contents From old world to new shores / Helena Simonett -- Accordion jokes : a folklorist's view / Richard March -- From chanky-chank to Yankee chanks : the ...

In the world of zydeco accordion players, Jeffery Broussard doesn’t have the biggest name. He doesn’t draw the biggest crowds (at least, not at home) or have the most girlfriends.

The master accordionist, whose career spanned over seven decades, died on July 31, 2025, at the age of 86, his family announced in a heartfelt social media post. El Flaco Jiménez was a Tejano Music ...

When I started in 1979 with the King of Zydeco, Clifton Chenier, I could count on one hand about five accordion players playing zydeco music and that's it. "Now, you got 500. Ain't five no more!" ...

He started playing zydeco on a toy accordion at the age of 2. By the age of 4, Guyland was on stage with Zydeco Force, a veteran band from Opelousas that features his great uncle Jeffery Broussard on ...

And if the full-blown accordion should ever bow his back, he's got a couple of smaller philharmonic models kickin' around the office. He's prepared to do whatever it takes to sustain the music ...

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 ...

At a glance What: Buckwheat Zydeco When: 7:30 p.m. Friday Where: Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts, 110 E. Mulberry St., Bloomington Tickets: $18.10 to $28.50 Box office number: (866) 686 ...

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 68 ...

Back then, zydeco, the term, didn't exist. The dances were were called la-las or accordion dances, said Joseph S. Bruno, who spent the first 17 of his 73 years in Carencro, La.

Chubby's Zydeco is a relative of Cajun music, born out of the French-speaking Black Creole community. Chubby Carrier: One time this couple came and goes, "Honey, you gotta come see this.