As she was teaching as at elementary school in a rural Louisiana town in 2000, former Winchester resident Anya Schoenegge Burgess never imagined she’d be nominated for a Grammy Award. A lifelong music ...

It’s not true that angel food cake served at Friday night’s “Cajun Casual” fundraiser at the Pine Bluff Country Club was prepared with a roux, but it could have been. The event — featuring the Cajun ...

Amanda Shaw grew up entwined in the rich, unique aspects of Louisiana culture and music. She absorbed it and savored it, and has been greeting the world with both arms open wide ever since. She set ...

It's a familiar tune: Location. Location. Location. And for SOLA Violins, that familiar refrain and more is why Anya Burgess moved her business from Arnaudville to the Gordon Hotel in the heart of ...

A 4-year-old Amanda Shaw got the first glimpse of her future career while watching an orchestra perform on television. “When they showed the violin, it was love at first sight,” Shaw says. “I turned ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Environmental portraits of Cajun musicians: 64 inkjet photographic prints, 1980-2008, some in black-and-white and others in color. Biographical / ...

I had lots of questions when I first met Anya Burgess almost two decades ago. Besides how to pronounce her maiden name of Schonegge, I asked, “What’s a luthier?” Burgess explained that a luthier makes ...

(WVUE) - The music of South Louisiana has a sound that is known around the world. And one of the reasons for its unique sound is that it relies on some locally made instruments. A new exhibit at the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The City of Orange Historical Preservation Commission proudly presents a series of ...