Get ready to dance, dine, and celebrate Cajun and Creole culture — Festivals Acadiens et Créoles returns to Girard Park Oct.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s Cajun and Creole heritage takes center stage this weekend when the Festivals Acadiens et Creoles marks a half-century of honoring and celebrating the culture through ...

The CBS News show “60 Minutes” recently proclaimed Jourdan Thibodeaux “Cajun music’s equivalent of a rock star,” saying he has become “something of a global ambassador for Cajun country and its way of ...

The world's largest free Cajun and Creole music festival returns to Lafayette this spring. Festivals Acadiens et Créoles will be hosting two festivals in 2022 with the theme "The Great Return" or "Le ...

Decades ago, if people wanted to hear Cajun or Zydeco music, they had to go to a dancehall or a bar, or they heard it at home. It was not until Festivals Acadiens et Créoles, the original and largest ...

Two unique workshops centered on Southwest Louisiana's popular music genres, Cajun and Zydeco, will be presented at this year's Spice & Music Festival scheduled for June 4-6, 2010 in historic downtown ...

Fifty years ago, residents of southwest Louisiana had a slightly different relationship with the region's traditional Cajun and Creole music. Fiddles, accordions and French songs would regularly fill ...

If you're looking for a destination that's off the beaten path, this small Louisiana town can provide an experience full of ...

Barry Ancelet, then 23 and a University of Louisiana at Lafayette student, was plenty worried on a stormy night at Blackham Coliseum 50 years ago this day. Stakes were high. Assigned to work at the ...

“If there was one musician today you could say poured the foundation for what we know today as Cajun music and zydeco, it would be Amédé Ardoin.” -Herman Fuselier, executive director, St. Landry ...