While perhaps not as intimately known outside Louisiana, zydeco has reached stages around the globe, and the Black Creole ...

The founders of Lafayette’s Creole Nutcracker have had success carving out a new performing arts tradition in the community, and now they’re setting their eyes on bringing more boys and young men into ...

A new record by Nouveau Electric Records scheduled for release on June 19 captures an early 20th-century style of music from house dances in rural Acadiana by one of its last practitioners. Creole ...

The rhythmic heartbeat of Creole culture comes alive at the George & Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center on Friday, March 29, from 7 – 10 p.m. In a celebration of unity and musical diversity, the Dance ...

Terry Domingue is a native of Duson, a small community located 10 miles west of Lafayette in the heart of French Louisiana. Coming of age in this hotbed of Cajun and Creole culture, he developed a ...

Wednesday’s Athenaeum Jazz at TSRI concert here by Trinidadian trumpeter Etienne Charles and his dance-happy band, Creole Soul, will be precedent-setting for several reasons.. Daniel Atkinson, who ...

Each week Global citizen Nari Safavi helps listeners plan their international weekend. This week we’ll tell you about an event for Syrian refugees and a creole dance party. Each week Global citizen ...

As a toddler, Trinidadian and Tobago native Patrick Parson would dance in front of his Caribbean home, next to the road entertaining his neighbours as they returned from their workday. The artistic ...

Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural Jr., an accordionist, organist, singer and songwriter who, under the name Buckwheat Zydeco, championed traditional southwest Louisiana Creole dance music on the world stage, ...