Musician Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr., who rose from a cotton-picking family in southwest Louisiana to introduce zydeco music to the world through his namesake band Buckwheat Zydeco, has died. He was ...

Buckwheat Zydeco’s longtime manager and producer Ted Fox reflects on launching zydeco’s first major label release. “I was a senior editor [at Audio magazine] and I started getting into zydeco. Audio ...

Acadiana came out on top during the 66th Grammy Awards on Feb. 4. In the 33rd tie in the show's history, Lost Bayou Ramblers with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and Buckwheat Zydeco, Jr. and the ...

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Young Stanley Doral Jr. hated Zydeco music. You can blame his Stanley Senior for that. Raised in a crowded, cramped home in Lafayette, La., Stanley Jr. quickly grew tired of dad’s incessant accordion ...

BELLOWS FALLS -- Buckwheat Zydeco headlines a Creole Dance Celebration to benefit Black Sheep Radio on tonight at 8 p.m., at the Bellows Falls Opera House. Stanley Dural, aka Buckwheat Zydeco, won the ...

In 1997, Buckwheat Zydeco nailed one of his best recordings ever and for what? Maybe it was the disc’s ominously christened title, Trouble, that sealed its downward fate. Thanks to the inexplicable ...

When the Lost Bayou Ramblers received a Grammy nomination in 2017 for their album "Kalenda," they were excited — but Louis Michot and his band members immediately started thinking about how much it ...

3 ICYMI: Meet the Next On Stage: Season 6 Finalists Traveling the world Nationally and Internationally by his father's side, Reginald Durall, or Sir Reg, as his father would call him, began by playing ...

Two hours west of New Orleans, the town of Opelousas is one of the best places to experience this irresistibly toe-tapping music genre created by Louisiana’s Black Creole community.

Stanley Dural, better known as Buckwheat Zydeco, realizes that many younger blacks along the Gulf Coast are skeptical about zydeco music. He appreciates that they think the music is for their parents ...