On a bright and humid afternoon in early May, Louisiana musicians gathered on the barn-like Fais Do-Do stage at the New ...

In 2002, the Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival was entering its second decade. More than 10,000 people had made a habit of attending the festival, held in a soybean field in the ...

The live music options in New Orleans this week include a free Cajun and zydeco festival and one of the most acclaimed new jazz singers in the country.

The marshy interior of southern Louisiana is home to a cuisine, language and sound all its own. Today, Cajun and Zydeco music, often sung in French, is enjoying a renaissance.

The Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival kicked off Saturday (June 23) on a hot, but beautiful summer day in Armstrong Park at 701 N. Rampart St. The free, two-day festival put on the New Orleans Jazz ...