Decades ago, if people wanted to hear Cajun or Zydeco music, they had to go to a dancehall or a bar, or they heard it at home. It was not until Festivals Acadiens et Créoles, the original and largest ...

Rhonda Thompson carries on her mom's passion for art by creating Cajun Clementine, an art mix of Louisiana and cajun culture "I’ve met a lot of people along the way that encourage me besides my mom ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. Mike Henry – aka “Crazy Cajun Henry” – is wild about his heritage.The Louisiana native is joining the Hotel Colorado’s Fat Tuesday celebration to ensure the event is as ...

A Houma TV producer is taking the unique culture of the Houma-Thibodaux area and south Louisiana to a broader audience. The Cajun Culture Channel, the product of Houma native Jaime Johnson, is found ...

Patrons dance as a live band performs at Buck & Johnny’s in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. Acadiana, often called Cajun Country, is a 14,500-square-mile region in southern Louisiana, a couple of hours’ ...

In 2001, The Times-Picayune published a series examining Cajun culture in Louisiana - past, present and future. In the past 100 years Cajun culture has stubbornly survived the rush of modernization.

For many young people, starting a band is part of how they define themselves, a way to draw the line where mom and dad end and they begin. Chris Stafford, of Lafayette’s Feufollet, started playing ...

Cajun filmmaker Pat Mire recalls an epiphany of sorts he had at the age of 5 while watching the 1950s sitcom “Ozzie and Harriet” in the farmhouse where he grew up outside of Eunice. He wondered aloud, ...

Since 1972, Festivals Acadiens et Créoles has been serving up the best of Cajun culture to an amassing fan base. The annual festival, held in Lafayette’s Girard Park, delivers a zestful combination of ...

The new location at 6974 Johnston St. in Lafayette will feature crawfish boils during the season. It will also have shrimp ...