One thousand five hundred miles northeast of Lafayette is one of the nation’s newest Cajun and zydeco festivals. The Bayou Boogie, three days of dancing and camping in the rolling Connecticut hills, ...

Zydeco legend and pianist Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr. and his group Buckwheat Zydeco represent one of the few zydeco bands to cross over into the world of mainstream music. Dural played piano as a ...

Stanley Dural was born in 1947 in Lafayette, La., a close-knit community where many black people express their Creole heritage by speaking French, and by playing and dancing to zydeco. This hybrid ...

Before 1982, the words “zydeco” and “festival” were never used in the same sentence. The Creole accordion dance music had already migrated from the rural house dances of southwest Louisiana to clubs ...

Four brothers from two different bands were inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame during a ceremony held at Rock ‘n’ Bowl in Lafayette on July 30. David Rubin (Rockin’ Dopsie Jr.), Alton ...

Zydeco music may be the one setting in which the accordion is considered a cool instrument. The accordion, along with the washboard and the fiddle, will be , during the Zydeco Swamp Romp on Saturday, ...

It's impossible to sit still when listening to zydeco music. Just watch anyone at a zydeco show move and groove. It's good-time dance music, and the has dedicated an entire day at the A&E Front Porch ...

It turns out that Terra Nova High School band dad Christopher Branco knows how to whip up some fine Louisiana cooking that makes the crowd shout, “More.” The last Saturday night in March, Branco — ...

Musician Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr., who rose from a cotton-picking family in southwest Louisiana to introduce zydeco music to the world through his namesake band Buckwheat Zydeco, has died. He was ...

PORTLAND, ORE. — Never mind the famous Oregon Trail. There’s a modern trail that extends 2,400 miles from the Pacific Northwest to South Louisiana that Portland area lovers of Acadiana culture have ...