BEAUMONT, Texas — Music has a way of being able to connect people in unexplainable ways and Zydeco music is no exception The sounds of Zydeco could be considered a staple for Mardi Gras in Southeast ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 18, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. The idea that this country has become one big, bland, conformist culture, the United ...

Lafayette Parish middle school students enjoyed a lively musical experience as legendary Zydeco musician Chubby Carrier ...

THIS YEAR'S FESTIVAL THEME IS "PA KASE," LERITAGE DE ZARIKO — "UNBROKEN," THE LEGACY OF ZYDECO. WHAT DOES THAT THEME MEAN TO YOU AND TO THE COMMUNITY? A1: The theme "Unbroken" is powerful because it ...

The modest, cream-colored '50s-era chapel that's home to St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church in Houston looks like many other places of worship you might find in urban America. The first clue to a ...

Before 1982, the words “zydeco” and “festival” were never used in the same sentence. The Creole accordion dance music had already migrated from the rural house dances of southwest Louisiana to clubs ...

Houstonians can celebrate Zydeco at festivals across the region this year with music, dancing and food. Zydeco music evolved from an acoustic folk idiom known as “la-la” in the 1920s, according to the ...

Stanley Dural was born in 1947 in Lafayette, La., a close-knit community where many black people express their Creole heritage by speaking French, and by playing and dancing to zydeco. This hybrid ...

On a bright and humid afternoon in early May, Louisiana musicians gathered on the barn-like Fais Do-Do stage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival to celebrate royalty: Clifton Chenier, the ...

Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural Jr., the accordionist and ambassador of zydeco music who performed under the stage name Buckwheat Zydeco, died Saturday following a battle with lung cancer. He was 68. “It is ...

Moccasins lit the lamp early and often Saturday night inside the Snake Pit, beating the Zydeco 6-1. Moccs have now won five ...