This week brings the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival, Jean Lafitte Seafood Festival, Memorial Day observations and more.

A weekend celebrating Southwestern Louisiana musical traditions is coming to the Crescent City at the end of May.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zydeco, a music genre created by the Black Creole community, has flourished in Southwest Louisiana and beyond, inspiring musicans ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (KLFY) — A documentary by a group of Acadiana natives on the history and culture of Zydeco music will be screened at a prestigious film festival in New Orleans this week. The creators ...

NEW ORLEANS — Fall has officially begun, and in New Orleans, the season is packed with exciting events from September through November. From funk and po-boy festivals to Bayou Bacchanal, there are ...

Johnette Downing clings to memories of her parents taking her to jazz and blues clubs in New Orleans. The family sometimes wandered into the country to two-step and waltz in the Cajun dancehalls ...

A fusion of Louisiana accordion music with Afro-Caribbean rhythms, blues, and R&B, zydeco is the irresistibly toe-tapping music of the Black Creole community in rural Southwest Louisiana, often sung ...