LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) - Saturday, Nov. 3, at the Strand Theater in Downtown Jennings, was the 4th Annual Battle of the Bows Cajun Fiddle Competition. “The fiddle is actually the main instrument of ...

Advocate Photo by LEE CELANO - Kevin Wimmer leads an Intermediate Cajun fiddle class as part of the 2015 Dewey Balfa Cajun and Creole Week at Vermilionville, where people come from around the country ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Members of the Cajun band T'Monde are young, but they like their music old. The band of 20-somethings opened the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Friday with century-old, ...

When Cajun music historian Wade Falcon presents “The True Story of Jolie Blonde” at Festival Acadiens et Creoles at noon Oct. 12, he’ll likely revive memories of the short yet brilliant career of ...

The first day of this year's New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival culminated in back-to-back sets by West London's Mumford & Sons and North Carolina's The Avett Brothers before a crowd more than ...

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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 ...

The Cajun Heritage Festival has a new host and new site, and this ninth annual event shouts out another first. The festival in Port Arthur will be the first conducted with the city’s recent ...