Lafayette is the epicenter of Cajun and Creole culture. Lafayette is the epicenter of Cajun and Creole culture, where the infectious rhythms of zydeco and Cajun music echo proudly across the bayou.

This family friendly festival has fun written all over it! The Inaugural Indiana Cajun/Zydeco Crawfish Festival is coming to Bill Monroe Music Park & Campground on Friday, May 20 and Saturday, 21, ...

It’s time for a jam session. Let’s see if you can tell the difference in Cajun, Zydeco, and swamp music.

WHITTINGTON — A slice of Southern Illinois will be transformed into the Louisiana bayou this weekend during the Cajun Festival at Pheasant Hollow Winery in Whittington. The two-day event opens 6 p.m.

PUTNEY -- Twilight Music continues its 10th annual Twilight On The Tavern Lawn series of summer concerts on Friday, with traditional and contemporary Cajun/zydeco roots music sextet Slippery Sneakers.

You know that episode of "The Andy Griffith Show" where the stranger gets off the bus and already seems to know everybody in Mayberry? And it turns out the fellow had been reading the Mayberry Gazette ...

The late Clifton Chenier, Zydeco pioneer known for his Creole-inspired sound rooted in blues, Cajun and R&B, is being bolstered by the music community on his 100th birthday. To mark the occasion and ...

Born in Church Point in 1929, Ellis Vanicor's Cajun sound would become indelibly linked with a little community smack in the middle of Jennings and Lake Charles — Lacassine. A self-taught fiddler, ...

TED JACKSON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Dayna Kurtz performs at the Lagniappe Stage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Thursday, May 3, 2012. (Ted Jackson / The Times-Picayune) Singer-songwriter ...

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 ...

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.