The genre is most closely associated with Louisiana, but one musicologist points out its entire "corridor" runs from the Bayou City up to Lafayette.

(WVUE) - In the early days of Zydeco music, a wooden washboard would keep the rhythm. But over the last half-century, stainless steel rub boards with over-the-shoulder straps give Zydeco its signature ...

There was a ceremony in the early '90s at the Acadian Village in Lafayette Parish where Boozoo Chavis was crowned the King of Zydeco. It was part of a convoluted Louisiana royalty ritual as replete ...

Jeffery Broussard, one of Louisiana's most dynamic and respected zydeco musicians, is once again pushing the boundaries of Creole music. His latest project, "Bayou Moonlight," recorded with his new ...

Zydeco accordionist and vocalist Dwayne Dopsie is a dynamo whose energized stage charisma translates right onto his recordings. Dospie, the youngest son of the late zydeco giant Alton “Rockin’ Dopsie” ...

Terry Domingue is a native of Duson, a small community located 10 miles west of Lafayette in the heart of French Louisiana. Coming of age in this hotbed of Cajun and Creole culture, he developed a ...

Four more performers were announced for the 79th National Folk Festival in downtown Salisbury on Wednesday. The festival is returning for the second year of the festival’s three-year residency in ...

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 ...

In the oldest zydeco music, a form called the juré, musicians played with hands and feet and voice as instruments. Two folklorists and musicologists who recorded the music a century ago — Alan and ...

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 ...

Back in the 1980s, Robin and Joani Lacy were touring the country playing covers of Top 40 disco music in clubs six nights a week. If you would have asked if they planned to still be playing music as a ...

COLFAX, Louisiana -- A musician known for his hip-hop-infused zydeco sound throughout southeast Texas and Louisiana was hospitalized late Friday after he was shot while performing, family members.