Festivals Acadiens et Creoles has forged a partnership with the Smithsonian Center, which reached out to organizers in ...

John Fogerty, Linda Ronstadt, Richard Thompson, and Patty Griffin are among the artists who have contributed songs, in French, to "Evangeline Made: A Tribute to Cajun Music." Due March 5 from… By ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana's Cajun and Creole heritage takes center stage this weekend when the Festivals Acadiens et Creoles marks a half-century of honoring and celebrating the culture through ...

The Beach at Lakeview Park and Beach, outside of Eunice, Thursday, May 14, 2026. The little city of Eunice attracts visitors ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - All day Saturday, Southwest Louisiana let the good time roll at the annual Cajun Music and Food Festival. “It started as a small organization here in Lake Charles and it’s ...

The 2019 CFMA Annual Cajun Awards and Music Festival is continuing today at the Rayne Civic Center. The event is held by the Cajun French Music Association. The event features an awards ceremony ...

This year, there's a new category at the Grammys: Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album. A young band from Louisiana called The Pine Leaf Boys received a nomination for its second album, Blues de Musicien.

Radio station KBON and musicians close to the family are reporting Cajun music legend Belton Richard has died. Richard, who was born in 1939, had been recently hospitalized with pneumonia. Funeral ...

Reporting from New Orleans — D.L. Menard, an ambassador for Cajun music and culture whose song “The Back Door” is among the most popular in the genre, has died at 85. Menard died Thursday at his home ...

Country singer Jimmy C. Newman, the first Cajun musician invited to be a member of the Grand Ole Opry, died of cancer on Saturday in Nashville. He was 86. Newman was born in High Point, La., and as a ...

Fans know the late D.L. Menard, who died early Thursday at age 85 after a long illness, for The Back Door, a 55-year-old, million-selling Cajun two-step song that still fills dance floors on its ...