JENNINGS – The Jefferson Davis Parish Tourist Commission and Southwest Louisiana Acoustic Cajun Music Jam are preserving Cajun culture and heritage through music. Today, they hosted their 4th Annual ...

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, ...

COMMUNITY CAUSES: The St. Tammany Farmer routinely features north shore nonprofits, but will take a deeper look at one smaller charity per month in 2022. We urge the community to support some of these ...

Jennings, LA - The historic Strand Theater in Jennings will host Louisiana's premier Cajun fiddle competition on November 1, featuring multiple age categories and $3,400 in prize money. The 9th Annual ...

New Orleans singer and fiddler Amanda Shaw felt the best way to mark 2020, a year that includes her 30th birthday on Aug. 2 and is her 20th year as a working musician, would be to celebrate the roots ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As 84-year-old Cajun music legend Doug Kershaw looks back, he’s still looking ahead too — fiddling, singing, writing and performing as the quintessential “Louisiana Man.” Kershaw ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (WAFB) - Students at one Louisiana university are able to study Cajun fiddle, the accordion, and even learn how to sing Cajun French songs, and get a degree in it. It’s called ...

Many musicians would be just fine with earning the kind of success seen by Lost Bayou Ramblers. The Grammy-winning Cajun band melded brothers Louis and Andre Michot’s traditional music heritage with ...

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 ...

BREAUX BRIDGE, LA (WVUE) - Their ages run from the single digits to the teens, but they are performing the music of their great grandparents. And they sing and play Cajun French tunes with the ...