BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, the most widely traveled and famous Cajun-French band, has launched its final tour. However absolute that sounds, the celebratory trek isn’t BeauSoleil’s last hurrah.

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 ...

The 30-year anniversary of BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet unfortunately coincided with the devastation of a large chunk of their home state, ravaged by hurricane Katrina. So the world's foremost ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Formed in 1975, the ...

BeauSoleil, described as “the world’s most famous and beloved Cajun band,” will bring its irresistibly danceable music to The Palms Playhouse on Friday. Heralded by luminaries ranging from Bob Dylan ( ...

In its 40-year career, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet has nabbed several Grammy Award nominations (and a couple of wins), produced two dozen albums, and remains a standard-bearer for Cajun music as it ...

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 ...

The new Cajun/Zydeco Grammy category has some resonance for Michael Doucet, frontman of the 30-year-old band BeauSoleil, which a decade ago became the first Cajun outfit — and the only one until the ...