Steve Riley’s words are almost blasphemous. The accordion has made Riley a Grammy winner, an international traveler and a master musician that many young musicians want to be when they grow up. But ...

Some 58 kids, from age 8 to 14, dragged wooden chairs into a circle Wednesday at the Vermilionville Living History Museum and Folklife Park and performed for Grammy-winner Jo-El Sonnier and Roddie ...

NATCHITOCHES, La. – The 42nd Annual Natchitoches-NSU Folk Festival has announced the addition of an interactive workshop entitled “Beginning Cajun Guitar,” which will feature instruction by ...

Advocate Photo by LEE CELANO - Brazos Huval, on stand-up bass, leads a Beginning Cajun guitar class as Lee Roberts looks on during the 2015 Dewey Balfa Cajun and Creole Week at Vermilionville, where ...

Doris Leon Menard was born on April 14, 1932, in Erath, Louisiana. The only child of a Cajun farming couple, Menard learned to play the guitar as a teenager and performed at Louisiana clubs from a ...

It’s early on a Wednesday night at Charlie O’s in Montpelier, but you wouldn’t know it to look at the dance floor. It’s already filled with couples two-stepping to driving rhythm guitar and drums, ...

BeauSoleil won the Grammy for the best zydeco or cajun music album earlier this month, but it was for an album they had never heard. The winning disc, "Live at the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage ...