Chances to hear live zydeco music in this area were rare a few short years ago. But today, as the popularity of the high-energy dance music has spread beyond its Southwest Louisiana home, zydeco can ...

One of a small handful of women in Zydeco, accordion player and singer Rosie Ledet has been enjoying year after year of success. Her warm stage presence combined with the infectious Zydeco beat, makes ...

Rosie Ledet & Zydeco Playboys, Walter “Wolfman” Washington and his Roadmasters and more will perform for free in City Park for the Threadhead Cultural Foundation’s unofficial Jazz Fest kickoff. Taking ...

Rosie Ledet provides a unique female presence in the male-dominated zydeco world. She sings in both Creole French and in English. Her songs are often sly and lusty and combined with her natural good ...

Wives often hide things from their husbands. In the case of Rosie Ledet, she hid the fact that she was slowly becoming a highly-skilled musician. Married to Morris Ledet, a bandleader and accordion ...

Sad news from down south. Rosie Ledet, the zydeco singer who performed on the mainstage at Saturday in the Park on July 4, is under investigation for allegedly leaving the body of a near full-term ...

OBERLIN, La. -- Allen Parish authorities are investigating the discovery of a near full-term baby's body allegedly left in a storage shed by a local Zydeco musician while she toured out of state, a ...

Come Get Some what? It’s a Rosie Ledet CD, so what’d’ya think? Sex, of course. Or, more precisely, decidedly female zydeco soul filled with double entendres and lots of hip-shaking grooves, a sound at ...

The temperature was a bit chilly at Glen Echo Park's transformed open-air Bumper Car Pavilion Saturday night, but Rosie Ledet and the Zydeco Playboys kept dancing couples warm with nearly 2 1/2 hours ...

Rosie Ledet, the Zydeco Sweetheart, and her Zydeco Playboys hit the Stargazers stage on August 8. This very talented, spicy Cajun gal from Louisiana plays a rockin’ accordion, has a stage presence ...

For a lot of kids growing up in rural Louisiana in the ’70s, Zydeco wasn’t cool or hip. That screechy accordion music the old folks hopped around to certainly didn’t impress young Mary Rosezla Bellard ...