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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Waylon Thibodeaux's new album, "Here We Go Again," seeks to breathe new life into an old genre. The Houma native, who plays electric and acoustic fiddle as well as lead vocals on the record, describes ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Kids and teens will have the chance to learn to play traditional Cajun and Zydeco music instruments and sing in French during the Louisiana Folk Roots Kids Camps this summer. The Kids Camps will be in ...