Some 58 kids, from age 8 to 14, dragged wooden chairs into a circle Wednesday at the Vermilionville Living History Museum and Folklife Park and performed for Grammy-winner Jo-El Sonnier and Roddie ...

It’s early on a Wednesday night at Charlie O’s in Montpelier, but you wouldn’t know it to look at the dance floor. It’s already filled with couples two-stepping to driving rhythm guitar and drums, ...

NATCHITOCHES, La. – The 42nd Annual Natchitoches-NSU Folk Festival has announced the addition of an interactive workshop entitled “Beginning Cajun Guitar,” which will feature instruction by ...

Advocate Photo by LEE CELANO - Brazos Huval, on stand-up bass, leads a Beginning Cajun guitar class as Lee Roberts looks on during the 2015 Dewey Balfa Cajun and Creole Week at Vermilionville, where ...

Doris Leon Menard was born on April 14, 1932, in Erath, Louisiana. The only child of a Cajun farming couple, Menard learned to play the guitar as a teenager and performed at Louisiana clubs from a ...

COW ISLAND, La. (KPLC) - Deep in Vermillion Parish, there’s a place called Cow Island with a population of just a few hundred people. One of them is musician Dustin Dale Gaspard. “Growing up in ...

New Riverside Ramblers will perform at Music in the Park at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 14, at Library Square. This Music in the Park is a preview for the RiverSong Music Festival, which will be July 18 ...