A weekend road trip from Lafayette to Lake Charles offers a compact journey through Cajun Country’s cultural landmarks, wildlife habitats, and Gulf Coast beaches. The itinerary features historic ...

Jourdan Thibodeaux et les Rôdailleurs will be bringing the Cajun French music and culture to the 40th Festival International de Louisiane. In Lafayette, where the Cajun culture thrives the crowd ...

A dance floor is a place of joy, where people have a chance to do more than listen to music — they can really experience it, adding their own creativity to the infectious beats that fill the air ...

Festivals Acadiens et Créoles celebrated its 51st year in Lafayette, Louisiana. The free, three-day event is the world's largest Cajun and Zydeco music celebration. This year's theme honored the ...

Cajun food is fairly mainstream — and gumbo, jambalaya and bread pudding can be found on restaurant menus nationwide. But one dish – gravy – has remained something of a hidden gem of Louisiana. And ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s Cajun and Creole heritage takes center stage this weekend when the Festivals Acadiens et Creoles marks a half-century of honoring and celebrating the culture through ...

You don't have to be "born on the bayou," as Creedence Clearwater Revival puts it, to appreciate Louisiana's unique culture and abundant, gorgeous, and peaceful bayou scenes. The state's Cajun culture ...

When Lafayette was founded in 1821, it was known as Vermilionville. The city formed itself along the banks of its namesake river, and has long been considered the seat of Acadian and Creole life in ...

Grammy award-winning fiddle player and vocalist Louis Michot opened the Lowertown Arts and Music Festival Friday with his ...

Cajun music is rooted in the songs and fiddle tunes of the Acadians—French speakers who migrated from France to Canada in the seventeenth century, and from Canada to Louisiana in the eighteenth ...