The genre is most closely associated with Louisiana, but one musicologist points out its entire "corridor" runs from the ...

A washboard, a guitar, accordion, and front porch sitting spawned one of the largest music revivals in the south in the French-Creole tradition of Zydeco music during the 1950s. On the cusp of that ...

LAFAYETTE, La. — Originally from Opelousas, the Grammy Award-winning artist Clifton Chenier is coined for having combined different instruments and sounds with traditional French creole music. He's ...

PORT ARTHUR, Texas — With Zydeco music deeply rooted in Southwest Louisiana, it is no surprise that its influence made its way across state lines into Port Arthur, the Cajun capital of Texas. Among ...

ENDWELL (WBNG) -- Two-time Grammy award-winning Zydeco music group, The Zydeco Experience, paid a visit to the students of Maine-Endwell Middle School on Tuesday with an educational performance called ...

When you're known as the King of Zydeco music, like the late Clifton Chenier was, it only makes sense that other recording legends would want to honor you. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ZYDECO SONT PAS SALES") ...

Richmond-based Andre Thierry’s life as a professional accordion player and music educator specializing in zydeco is not just a career; it’s a calling. The art form originating in Louisiana’s French ...

Terrance Simien will be kicking up a dance party with his Zydeco Experience on Saturday night, June 8, 2024, with an Iowa Arts Festival main stage concert in downtown Iowa City. The two-time Grammy ...

KINDER, La. (WVUE) - Zydeco music and the Coushatta people have deep roots in Allen Parish in southwestern Louisiana. And both take center stage at a new cultural center in the town of Kinder. Allen ...

Louisiana Folk Roots is offering Cajun and Zydeco music camps for children ages 8-14 this summer. Camps will be in Eunice, Lafayette and Opelousas throughout June and July. Camp activities include ...

PHILIPSBURG - It must have been the moaning bellows of 100 accordions that breathed life into this frozen American tableau, because the scene here might never have existed outside a Norman Rockwell ...

When Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble came to Carson City in 2023, the zydeco music filled the air for a party on the Brewery Arts Center campus. It was the last stop of their tour and the band’s first ...