They say every day is Mardi Gras inside the 106-year-old building in the Elizabeth neighborhood that houses the Cajun Queen restaurant on 7th Street. Besides the Cajun and Creole dishes served daily, ...

Cajun music is beloved for its accessibility. Whether young or old, armed with a fiddle or perhaps some rhythmic household tool — a pair of spoons or an old washboard in a pinch — all are welcome to ...

Along with Jason Frey in Lagniappe, Travis Matte was an integral part of the outstanding À la Vieille Manière album that notched several CFMA Awards in 2001. That was Matte’s last totally trad Cajun ...

(AP) Members of the Cajun band T’Monde are young, but they like their music old. The band of 20-somethings opened the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Friday with century-old, fiddle-heavy Cajun ...

Marc Savoy is a Louisiana legend not only in Eunice but around the world. He has dedicated his life to preserving the Cajun culture through making instruments, holding jam sessions and maintaining a ...

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 ...

Tradition runs deep in Louisiana, but there's always room for rediscovering the old and making way for the new in the Cajun music of Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys. Outtakes caught up with Riley ...

Musicians — who depend on live audiences as much as they do — have been especially hard hit by the pandemic. Perhaps nowhere has this been felt more acutely than in South Louisiana, where music lies ...

Cajun life is all about getting together to be with people to celebrate what you love: music, food and camaraderie. But the pandemic has shut that... COVID-19 Hits Hard For South Louisiana's Cajun ...