Athabascan culture stretches across interior Alaska, a landmass larger than California, encompassing dozens of rural Native ...

Louisiana’s soundtrack is alive 24/7. Join us on a journey through the birthplace of jazz and the musical highlights of this southern state that tells its story through its ...

The fiddle is often used as an accent in songs and less as the central instrument. However, there are a few country songs that give the fiddle the spotlight. Find four of the most essential fiddle ...

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

Cajun music is rooted in the songs and fiddle tunes of the Acadians—French speakers who migrated from France to Canada in the seventeenth century, and from Canada to Louisiana in the eighteenth ...

Jennings, LA - The historic Strand Theater in Jennings will host Louisiana's premier Cajun fiddle competition on November 1, featuring multiple age categories and $3,400 in prize money. The 9th Annual ...

LOWELL — Dozens gathered in and around the Merrimack Repertory Theatre Saturday for the Lowell Summer Music Series’ 44th annual Banjo & Fiddle Contest. The contest brought musicians from all over the ...

Cajun musician Ellis Vanicor shares stories of his fiddles during a 2012 interview with the American Press. Vanicor began his musical career in the late 1940s forming Ellis Vanicor and the Lacassine ...

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, ...

The marshy interior of southern Louisiana is home to a cuisine, language and sound all its own. Today, Cajun and Zydeco music, often sung in French, is enjoying a renaissance. Nigel Farage warns ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)— Ahead of the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana singer and fiddler Amanda Shaw is releasing a new song honoring New Orleans. Shaw lived through Hurricane Katrina, and ...

French Table - Participants at the recent French Table at Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site were front row, from left, Marshall Savoie, Ascension Almanza, McKenzie Hebert, Gerladine Babineaux ...