Man about town George Thompson, aka Coyote, is bringing some of his favorite acoustic musicians to perform at the Sebastiani ...

The genre is most closely associated with Louisiana, but one musicologist points out its entire "corridor" runs from the ...

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 the ...

Jeffery Broussard, one of Louisiana's most dynamic and respected zydeco musicians, is once again pushing the boundaries of Creole music. His latest project, "Bayou Moonlight," recorded with his new ...

One thousand five hundred miles northeast of Lafayette is one of the nation’s newest Cajun and zydeco festivals. The Bayou Boogie, three days of dancing and camping in the rolling Connecticut hills, ...

Young Stanley Doral Jr. hated Zydeco music. You can blame his Stanley Senior for that. Raised in a crowded, cramped home in Lafayette, La., Stanley Jr. quickly grew tired of dad’s incessant accordion ...

A few months ago, Joel Savoy, the Louisiana Cajun musician and label owner, was at a local pressing plant looking over the cover art for a just-finished tribute album to zydeco legend Clifton Chenier.

When you're known as the King of Zydeco music, like the late Clifton Chenier was, it only makes sense that other recording legends would want to honor you. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ZYDECO SONT PAS SALES") ...

Terrance Simien will be kicking up a dance party with his Zydeco Experience on Saturday night, June 8, 2024, with an Iowa Arts Festival main stage concert in downtown Iowa City. The two-time Grammy ...

"I'm Coming Home (To See My Mother)" opens with the sound of the instrument that connects Zydeco with other forms of music that originated in and around Louisiana: the accordion. It's followed by the ...