Festivals Acadiens et Créoles has showcased 51 years of Cajun, Creole culture. Here's why for some, it's their happy place.

DUMMERSTON — Louisiana takes on Vermont this Saturday, from 1 to 4 p.m., at the 2nd Annual Cajun Festival at Kampfires Campground, Inn and Entertainment. Three live bands take the stage at an all ...

Fifty years ago, residents of southwest Louisiana had a slightly different relationship with the region's traditional Cajun and Creole music. Fiddles, accordions and French songs would regularly fill ...

For more than 40 years, BeauSoleil bandleader Michael Doucet has been carrying on a musical tradition that once was in danger of extinction. When he started studying and playing Cajun music in the ...

Festivals Acadiens et Créoles is an annual festival held in Lafayette, Louisiana, celebrating the region’s rich Cajun and Creole heritage. Since the first festival in 1974, the three-day event has ...

The festival runs April 5 and April 6 and promises to be a culinary and musical extravaganza that celebrates Cajun culture, offering a feast of food, music, and family fun JUPITER, Fla. — Get ready ...

Lafayette, it's time to start getting ready for fall festival season. Festivals Acadiens et Créoles released its 2025 lineup today, with musicians ranging from legends like Zachary Richard and Wayne ...

SHEFFIELD — According to Michael Doucet, Cajun music comes from a great many people and places — at its heart, an oral tradition of a stubborn French diaspora met with African, Native American and ...

It doesn’t get much better than listening to blues, Cajun and zydeco music while feasting on impeccably fresh seafood, an array of sausages and pulled-pork sprinkled with “bark” (the crisp pieces from ...