Chenier came to be known as the King of Zydeco. He toured Europe; won a Grammy for his 1982 album, I’m Here! ; performed at ...

Zydeco music may be the one setting in which the accordion is considered a cool instrument. The accordion, along with the washboard and the fiddle, will be , during the Zydeco Swamp Romp on ...

Delafose's accordion, an instrument vital to the African American- Louisianan musical form called zydeco, had dancers of both genders, black and white, young and old, gyrating in the warm night ...

Musicians from as far as Japan have come to Opelousas to learn from zydeco accordion wizard Jeffery Broussard. But Broussard was in for a surprise when renowned Celtic musician Tony Davoren ...

The early Sears catalogs described the accordion as an "orchestra in a box." Whether it's a zydeco or conjunto or German and Czech polka band, the accordion player is almost always the bandleader.

You'd think the man who made the accordion hipper than thou would have fonder childhood memories of his claim to instrumental fame. But no. | Audio Buckwheat Zydeco brings now beloved accordion to B-N ...

After his stint in Chenier’s band, where Dural also learned to play the accordion, Dural started his own band called Buckwheat Zydeco, a moniker that would become associated with Dural Jr. himself.

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.

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 accordion arrived with some part of the population ... He tours with his group, The Bayou Swamp Band. Chubby's Zydeco is a relative of Cajun music, born out of the French-speaking Black ...

which will provide financial assistance to students studying traditional music — specifically zydeco accordion — at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.