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 ...

JENNINGS – The Jefferson Davis Parish Tourist Commission and Southwest Louisiana Acoustic Cajun Music Jam are preserving Cajun culture and heritage through music. Today, they hosted their 4th Annual ...

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 ...

Indeed, Cajun music gives the gift of frenetic velocity, like two sticks and a piece of flint, and is all about being squashed, spun, dizzy and thrown like clay on potter’s wheel. She gives it the ...

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, ...

New Orleans singer and fiddler Amanda Shaw felt the best way to mark 2020, a year that includes her 30th birthday on Aug. 2 and is her 20th year as a working musician, would be to celebrate the roots ...

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 ...

Get ready to dance, dine, and celebrate Cajun and Creole culture — Festivals Acadiens et Créoles returns to Girard Park Oct.

Doug Kershaw’s autobiographical “Louisiana Man” was a career-defining Top 10 hit that’s since become an Americana standard. Credit: Creative Commons / David Simpson cajunzydecophotos Legendary Cajun ...

Two unique workshops centered on Southwest Louisiana's popular music genres, Cajun and Zydeco, will be presented at this year's Spice & Music Festival scheduled for June 4-6, 2010 in historic downtown ...

"Music Voyager" host Jacob Edgar meets up with Grammy winner India. Jacob Edgar meets up with Grammy winner India. Then, he travels to Lafayette, Louisiana, the heart of Cajun country, to meet up with ...

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