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.

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 ...

ST. LANDRY PARISH — The sounds of washboards and accordions will once again fill Opelousas this weekend as the 43rd Annual Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival returns with a full lineup ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jeffery Broussard, one of Louisiana's most dynamic and respected zydeco musicians, is once again pushing the boundaries of Creole ...

New Orleans singer-songwriter Robin Barnes is currently putting the last touches to her first solo full-length album, ...

Zydeco music, deeply rooted in Black and Creole culture, thrives today through artists like CJ Chenier, who honor its rich ...

THIS YEAR'S FESTIVAL THEME IS "PA KASE," LERITAGE DE ZARIKO — "UNBROKEN," THE LEGACY OF ZYDECO. WHAT DOES THAT THEME MEAN TO YOU AND TO THE COMMUNITY? A1: The theme "Unbroken" is powerful because it ...

For everyone else, Aug. 30-31 is Labor Day weekend. For zydeco music fans, these are holy days of festival obligation. Seismic cultural shifts take root that weekend. St. Landry Parish and the ...

When "60 Minutes" came to the Lafayette area last fall to film a segment on Cajun and zydeco music, they were confronted with the energy of a thriving cultural scene. CBS correspondent Jon Wertheim ...

It didn’t take a lot to get the crowd at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival's Fais Do-Do Stage to start moving. Almost from the first notes, people were bouncing, and a few couples began dancing ...