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 ...

SCOTT, La. (KLFY) — Award-winning Zydeco musician Chubby Carrier visited French Immersion students in Scott to help them appreciate Louisiana’s Zydeco traditions. As a teaching artist with the ...

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 ...

According to his early recollections, Lynn August remembers having some sight until he was about four years old. His vision failed rapidly after that though, and August would spend the rest of his ...

Grammy Award-winning zydeco bandleader Terrance Simien will present “Creole for Kids” as part of COCA’s Family Theatre Series Jan. 29-31 at COCA’s Founders’ Theatre, 524 Trinity Ave. in U. City.

On a bright and humid afternoon in early May, Louisiana musicians gathered on the barn-like Fais Do-Do stage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival to celebrate royalty: Clifton Chenier, the ...

LAFAYETTE, La. — El Sido’s Zydeco and Blues Club hosted its annual Thanksgiving food drive and “Night of Zydeco Legends” on Tuesday, marking the first year the tradition carried on without its founder ...

Clifton Chenier Centennial. In this centennial year of the birth of Clifton Chenier, many events and projects are celebrating the zydeco music pioneer and his international impact. Wednesday, June 25, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. NEW YORK (AP) — The Rolling Stones’ Mick ...