Granger died seven weeks later. That last recording has become “Courtney Granger & Cedric Watson: Cajun & Creole Music of ...

Rusty Costanza, The Times-PicayuneD.L. Menard performed with his band the Louisiana Aces at the 2011 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival's Fais Do-Do Stage on Saturday. Jon Langford was standing at ...

Heralded by luminaries ranging from Bob Dylan (“That’s my kind of music”) to New Orleans musical icon Allen Toussaint (“BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, they play music that’s honest to the bone!”), ...

PORT ALLEN, LA (WAFB) - The Cajun accordion, with its lively wail, is a sound that is as uniquely Louisiana as sausage jambalaya or seafood gumbo and for one Port Allen family, the love affair with ...

A newsman-turned-chef and his jazz singer wife are cooking up a plan to make blackened chicken as popular as Buffalo wings with the Port Washington couple’s new Manhattan restaurant, The Sound Bite.

If you are one of the masses who bought into the Coldplay phenomenon, have a passion for old-skool reggae or dub or are just searching for something that will hit a bit more of your soul than what is ...

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, ...

Cajun rock ‘n’ roll. It’s not simply rock from southern Louisiana. Instead, it’s Cajun music — the Acadiana music of accordion and fiddle with Cajun French-sung lyrics — fused with intense, raw rock ...

Young band changing the sites and sounds of Cajun and Creole music The rhythmic and raucous sounds of Cajun and Creole music will fill the air Thursday night when the Pine Leaf Boys invade downtown ...

For many young people, starting a band is part of how they define themselves, a way to draw the line where mom and dad end and they begin. Chris Stafford, of Lafayette’s Feufollet, started playing ...

People can get a taste of Louisiana and bayou treats like crawfish boil, jambalaya, po-boys and other Cajun food at a festival in downtown Chandler later this month. Southwest Cajun Fest brought to ...