"I'm Coming Home (To See My Mother)" opens with the sound of the instrument that connects Zydeco with other forms of music that originated in and around Louisiana: the accordion. It's followed by the ...

The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band has been playing together since 1977. The band includes husband and wife Marc and Ann Savoy, on accordion and guitar respectively, and Michael Doucet of Beausoleil on ...

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 ...

Everybody loves the blues in some capacity. This genre of soulful music can be traced back to the 1860s in the Deep South. The origins of the blues started with African-American musicians who created ...

Social music -- Early commercial era -- A heterogeneous tradition -- Becoming the folk -- Cajun swing era -- The modern Cajun sound -- Cajun national anthem -- A new mental world 'Cajun Breakdown' ...

SHEFFIELD — According to Michael Doucet, Cajun music comes from a great many people and places — at its heart, an oral tradition of a stubborn French diaspora met with African, Native American and ...

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 ...

Have you ever heard of the Southwest Louisiana-born genre known as zydeco? This gorgeous genre of music was created by the often French-speaking Afro-American Creole musicians of that particular area, ...

Despite the “nouveau” in its name, Nouveaux Cajun Xpress has years of bandstand experience. Most of the Cajun music-rooted group spent more than decade with Rodney Thibodeaux and Tout Les Soir. In ...

Jourdan Thibodeaux, who has been hailed as the future of Cajun music, will perform today and Saturday at The Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua. Courtesy photo The CBS News show “60 Minutes” recently ...

The documentary filmmaker Les Blank, who died in 2013 at the age of 77, did the lord’s work. Likely best known for “Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers” (1980), “Burden of Dreams” (1982), and “Gap ...