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 ...

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Pull out your dancing shoes and get ready for the 15th annual Louisiana Cajun and Zydeco Festival—four weeks of back-to-back stellar performances from some of the most beloved Louisiana Cajun and ...

LIVE MUSIC: Delcambre Shrimp Festival, Festival Grounds, 10 a.m. GRACE NOVOSAD & MIKE LARSON & THE ONES WHO GOT AWAY: Hideaway on Lee, Lafayette, 11 a.m. LIVE MUSIC: Cane River Pecan Company Pie Bar, ...

Cajun music is rooted in the songs and fiddle tunes of the Acadians—French speakers who migrated from France to Canada in the seventeenth century, and from Canada to Louisiana in the eighteenth ...

Heralded by luminaries ranging from Bob Dylan (“That’s my kind of music”) to New Orleans musical icon Allen Toussaint (“BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, they play music that’s honest to the bone!”), ...

The Walters Cultural Arts Center is proud to announce a concert by BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet on Thursday, April 7th at 7:30 pm. Whether its blues, bluegrass, rock or traditional Cajun this band ...

Their music has been called Cajun, Acadian, Zydeco and French dance music. Whatever the label, Michael Doucet and BeauSoleil proved Thursday night that their 50 years of performing and recording lived ...

Who: Cajun fiddler Mitch Reed Genre: A member of the Grammy Award-winning zydeco band BeauSoleil, Mitch Reed began playing fiddle when he was 15 years old. Reed has formed several notable bands ...

BeauSoleil won the Grammy for the best zydeco or cajun music album earlier this month, but it was for an album they had never heard. The winning disc, "Live at the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage ...

The Cajun music of south Louisiana has many different influences -- French Canadian folk music, French Caribbean dance music and African American blues -- but one of its principal sources has been ...

For the past 39 years, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet has been making some of the most potent and popular Cajun music on the planet. Born out of the rich Acadian ancestry of its members, and created ...