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The album, released on musician Joel Savoy’s Valcour Records label based in Eunice, pairs rock, folk and blues icons with ...
Houstonians can celebrate Zydeco at festivals across the region this year with music, dancing and food. Zydeco music evolved from an acoustic folk idiom known as “la-la” in the 1920s ...
In Michael Tisserand’s “Kingdom of Zydeco” book, Lafayette saxophonist Dickie Landry tells the story of bringing Jagger to a 1970s Chenier dance at the Verbum Dei High School auditorium in ...
The Rolling Stones and Lucinda Williams are among the many famous artists featured on an upcoming tribute album to late zydeco king Clifton Chenier.
Below is everything you need to know about this year’s Ouachita RiverFest: April 24 at 7 a.m. - April 27 at 5 p.m. — Commerce ...
At Café Des Amis in Breaux Bridge, breakfast comes with zydeco music and dancing on the side, a tradition begun in 1998. Melding "pragmatism and adaptability," says historian Carl Brasseaux ...
Lafayette is known for the exceptional quality of its live music. Almost any day of the week, Acadiana residents can catch ...
In addition, there will be open jam sing-alongs for instrumentalists and singers, dance floors at all venues, Zydeco dance lessons, a women’s night with female jazz singers and shuttles to take ...