For more than 40 years, BeauSoleil bandleader Michael Doucet has been carrying on a musical tradition that once was in danger of extinction. When he started studying and playing Cajun music in the ...

While Cajun Country (also known as Acadiana) in southwest Louisiana, may not have the same name recognition as New Orleans, you'll find plenty of memorable experiences you won't find on Frenchmen ...

NEW ORLEANS — A song the writer's bandleader hated has become one of Cajun music's all-time greatest hits, and the writer's home town saluted him and the song's 55th anniversary July 2. More: Cajun ...

JENNINGS, La. (AP) - Two Jefferson Davis Parish men’s dream of a radio station dedicated to providing a special place to the local French-language Cajun music is a reality with the launch of Cajun ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - All day Saturday, Southwest Louisiana let the good time roll at the annual Cajun Music and Food Festival. “It started as a small organization here in Lake Charles and it’s ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 18, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. The idea that this country has become one big, bland, conformist culture, the United ...

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 ...

THIBODAUX — The Le Bijou Theater at Nicholls State University came alive Friday as Cajun music floated through the air. Children leapt out their seats to dance and play instruments. Adults clapped ...

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 ...

Fans know the late D.L. Menard, who died early Thursday at age 85 after a long illness, for The Back Door, a 55-year-old, million-selling Cajun two-step song that still fills dance floors on its ...