Louisiana French music is most associated with the Fiddle. These days, Louisiana French music is infused with the sounds of several key instruments, including the guitar, the accordion, and more. But ...

When traditional Cajun and Creole musicians take to the stage, one mark of their genius is how easy they make it look. Whether they are wielding an accordion, a fiddle, or some other folk instrument, ...

JENNINGS, La. — Registration is open for the seventh annual “Battle of the Bows” Cajun Fiddle Competition. The competition is open to all Cajun-style fiddle playing. This year’s event will be held ...

This weeks Acadiana Music Spotlight features Breaux Bridge native and Grammy nominated musician, Brazos Huval. In St. Martin Parish, music instructor Brazos Huval is preserving this culture by ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Linda Ronstadt once said, “Joel Savoy is one of my favorite musicians on just about any ...

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 "Lâche Pas" program, now part of the core curriculum, connects students with Cajun traditions through the music of their ancestors. ERATH, KATC — In the heart of Vermilion Parish, something ...

New Orleans singer and fiddler Amanda Shaw felt the best way to mark 2020, a year that includes her 30th birthday on Aug. 2 and is her 20th year as a working musician, would be to celebrate the roots ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...

It seems improbable, but it's true. L'Angelus, a brother and two sisters from Lafayette, La., who play Cajun music with Irish roots, got their start singing with their mother at the Urban Stampede in ...