Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas bring high‑energy Louisiana dance music to Thrasher Opera House on Feb. 6. Tickets available now ...

San Diego’s four-day Gator by the Bay festival will celebrate its 21st anniversary next Thursday through May 12 with more than 100 performances celebrating an array of homegrown American roots-music ...

Clifton Chenier Centennial. In this centennial year of the birth of Clifton Chenier, many events and projects are celebrating the zydeco music pioneer and his international impact. Wednesday, June 25, ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Tonight Acadiana honored the life and legacy of Zydeco legend Joe Hall with the premiere of a new documentary celebrating his music and life story at the Acadiana Center for ...

When you're known as the King of Zydeco music, like the late Clifton Chenier was, it only makes sense that other recording legends would want to honor you. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ZYDECO SONT PAS SALES") ...

The family that plays together stays together, or so goes the old saying. When it comes to Zydeco music, family often does indeed stay together. In Rita Colligan Manuel’s photo exhibition “Memories of ...

Stanley Dural, better known as Buckwheat Zydeco, realizes that many younger blacks along the Gulf Coast are skeptical about zydeco music. He appreciates that they think the music is for their parents ...

When "60 Minutes" came to the Lafayette area last fall to film a segment on Cajun and zydeco music, they were confronted with the energy of a thriving cultural scene. CBS correspondent Jon Wertheim ...

Zydeco accordionist and Lafayette native Dwayne Dopsie posted a picture on social media Wednesday of himself with singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Ronnie Wood backstage at the main stage at the Fair ...

It was a crowded Mardi Gras weekend in Mamou — a town of a little under 3,000 people that receives thousands of additional visitors during one of the busiest seasons in south Louisiana. People flock ...