A fiddle-playing Cajun pixie named Dixie comes to life in the pages of a local author's book and readers can get a chance to meet the author and get a free copy when they have a po-boy. "Dixie The ...

JENNINGS, La. — Registration is open for the seventh annual “Battle of the Bows” Cajun Fiddle Competition. The competition is open to all Cajun-style fiddle playing. This year’s event will be held ...

OPELOUSAS — Willie Durisseau apologized for the hoarseness in his voice that made it difficult to speak. Irma Durisseau, his wife of 75 years, fielded most of the visitors’ questions in their ...

The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band has been playing together since 1977. The band includes husband and wife Marc and Ann Savoy, on accordion and guitar respectively, and Michael Doucet of Beausoleil on ...

Born in Church Point in 1929, Ellis Vanicor's Cajun sound would become indelibly linked with a little community smack in the middle of Jennings and Lake Charles — Lacassine. A self-taught fiddler, ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (WAFB) - Students at one Louisiana university are able to study Cajun fiddle, the accordion, and even learn how to sing Cajun French songs, and get a degree in it. It’s called ...

COMMUNITY CAUSES: The St. Tammany Farmer routinely features north shore nonprofits, but will take a deeper look at one smaller charity per month in 2022. We urge the community to support some of these ...

Musicians — who depend on live audiences as much as they do — have been especially hard hit by the pandemic. Perhaps nowhere has this been felt more acutely than in South Louisiana, where music lies ...

ABBEVILLE, KATC — ABBEVILLE, La. - It’s festival season and everyone in town is feeling the excitement. “It’s not everyday when your average 11-year-old gets to go to Festival International, so I ...