A few months ago, Joel Savoy, the Louisiana Cajun musician and label owner, was at a local pressing plant looking over the cover art for a just-finished tribute album to zydeco legend Clifton Chenier.

San Diego’s four-day Gator by the Bay festival will celebrate its 21st anniversary next Thursday through May 12 with more than 100 performances celebrating an array of homegrown American roots-music ...

It's the cold-hearted human who can sit still to zydeco. Southern Louisiana gets the credit for this feisty music's origins, a strangely intoxicating mix of French Canadian songs, the strings and keys ...

"I'm Coming Home (To See My Mother)" opens with the sound of the instrument that connects Zydeco with other forms of music that originated in and around Louisiana: the accordion. It's followed by the ...

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, ...

101 Please Don't Leave Me / Thunders (Musical group), Fernest Arceneaux. Accordion,Guitar. English language 102 Persone Pole Danse Avec Moin / Thunders (Musical group), Fernest Arceneaux.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Josh Baca calls the music he makes with his band the Hot Tamales a fusion of conjunto and zydeco. (Mariaelena Villarreal) Josh ...

HAMDEN >> If roots music is your thing, don’t let Thursday night’s show at The Ballroom at The Outer Space slip by. Unless you are a serious, dyed-in-the-wool fan of zydeco music — the ...

Stanley Dural Jr., known to the world as Buckwheat Zydeco, is music’s best-selling zydeco artist. Following six Grammy nominations, the Carencro singer and accordion and organ player’s 2009 album, ...

Houston, TX and Southwest LA (WGNO) — Juneteenth began 157 years ago in East Texas, as a celebration of freedom for people of color. Something that is just as big in East Texas today and Louisiana as ...

Musicians from as far as Japan have come to Opelousas to learn from zydeco accordion wizard Jeffery Broussard. But Broussard was in for a surprise when renowned Celtic musician Tony Davoren, who also ...