A Cajun band from Louisiana will perform Thursday at Empire Arts Center in Grand Forks and highlight a Chautauqua and French Festival of heritage and culture Aug. 21-23 at Old Crossing and Treaty Park ...
ERATH — It was French that attracted the Acadians to Louisiana. After years of imprisonment, Joseph Beausoleil Broussard brought his band of Acadians to the West Indies and then followed his people's ...
The Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux is honoring Cajun culture next week by holding its yearly French Mass. The Diocese has held a service where both the music and the sermons are held in Cajun French since ...
There's a little radio station in south Louisiana. It's been on the air for nearly 70 years, doing everything it can to keep alive a dying language. That's Cajun French. On Saturday mornings, it ...
When Council for the Development of French in Louisiana Chairman James Domengeaux and a group of academics, activists and musicians decided to throw a concert celebrating Cajun music and culture in ...
LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Cajun music sings in the hearts of many in Southwest Louisiana and seven people were inducted into the Cajun French Music Hall of Fame Sunday. The morning was filled with ...
Before the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, even before French Quarter Festival, there's Fete Francaise, a unique one-day festival celebrating the French heritage and food of New Orleans. The ...
Last month, KVPI, a commercial radio station in Ville Platte, Louisiana, was awarded the “Uniquely Louisiana” award from the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters. The award was due in large part to ...
The return of Festival International was marked with five days of music, dancing and the joy of being able to gather for both. But the influence of Francophonie in Louisiana is not done just yet. In ...
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How to explore the music of Louisiana – from jazz in the streets of New Orleans to Zydeco in Lafayette saloons
Louisiana has always been a state that dances to its own beat. That beat might be a jazz brunch in Lake Charles, Cajun dance at a traditional pig roast in Baton Rouge, or swamp pop blasting out a ...
August 15th marked a meaningful day across Acadiana as communities gathered to celebrate National Acadian Day, honoring the descendants of French settlers who were exiled from Canada in the 18th ...
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