If not for Rita Colligan Manuel's camera and abiding passion for zydeco, this dynamic music native to the Texas and Louisiana Gulf coasts might have remained more of a mystery than it already is.

One thousand five hundred miles northeast of Lafayette is one of the nation’s newest Cajun and zydeco festivals. The Bayou Boogie, three days of dancing and camping in the rolling Connecticut hills, ...

Chubby Carrier, an award-winning Zydeco musician, visited French Immersion students in Scott to educate them on the cultural significance of Zydeco music and its influence on his life and career.

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 ...

Terrance Simien will be kicking up a dance party with his Zydeco Experience on Saturday night, June 8, 2024, with an Iowa Arts Festival main stage concert in downtown Iowa City. The two-time Grammy ...

Forty years ago, a talented musician from the farming community of Lebeau, Louisiana released a song that defied easy categorization. "My Toot Toot," by Rockin' Sidney Simien, would go on to become an ...

Having been the leading ambassador for zydeco music since the late '70s, Stanley Dural Jr., better known as Buckwheat Zydeco, has become its pied piper as well through family concerts, including the ...

ARNAUDVILLE, La. (KLFY) — Award-winning zydeco artist Chester “Tune” Chevalier, 81, died peacefully this morning at his home in Arnaudville surrounded by family and loved ones. Chevalier was a ...

When someone says “with all due respect,” brace yourself. An insult is about to follow. But I don’t mean it as a putdown when I say to zydeco accordion players, with all due respect, you are no ...

When Slim’s Y-Ki-Ki Zydeco dance hall closed in Opelousas in 2016, it represented an end of an era. Not an end to listening to zydeco, certainly. Festivals, both local and worldwide, celebrate ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. ARNAUDVILLE, La. (KLFY) — Award-winning ...