In last year’s Wheeler Opera House performance, Louisiana’s Beausoleil played its Cajun fiddle music with few twists. But on “Gitane Cajun,” purportedly an homage to a trio of deceased Louisiana ...

Many musicians would be just fine with earning the kind of success seen by Lost Bayou Ramblers. The Grammy-winning Cajun band melded brothers Louis and Andre Michot’s traditional music heritage with ...

Fiddle, accordion and French lyrics are still the foundation of the Ramblers’ music. “We’re definitely a Cajun band. You can’t argue with that.” But to Michot and his bandmates, traditional music is ...

Oct. 13—I suspect that if you'd told Michael Doucet, back when he decided to form the Louisiana band BeauSoleil and explore, honor and curate the future of Cajun music, that they'd be going 45 years ...

A renowned Cajun sextet from Louisiana performed two shows in Alaska this weekend — unexpectedly, as a quintet. BeauSoleil — a two-time Grammy-winning band from Louisiana — is often known as ...

The Rayo Brothers had only been playing about two years when they decided a fiddler was needed in their Americana band. Some band members had done side gigs with Sarah Jayde Williams, granddaughter of ...

C. A Cajun girl who, in song, danced close “to make the old ladies mad” All three answers are correct. Add to the list the title of the new album from the Lost Bayou Ramblers. Fiddler Louis Michot ...

Eleven years of touring with BeauSoleil, the two-time, Grammy-winning Cajun band, has brought Mitch Reed from the Andouille Festival in LaPlace to the Galway Arts Festival in Ireland. But in recent ...

The sound of the Savoy Family Cajun Band begins with accordion, fiddle, guitar, and piano; it’s sung in Cajun French and performed by two generations of a family who joyfully live their culture. Cajun ...