In last year’s Wheeler Opera House performance, Louisiana’s Beausoleil played its Cajun fiddle music with few twists. But on “Gitane Cajun,” purportedly an homage to a trio of deceased Louisiana ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Right about now, the fort is fully warmed up. Over the past week, Fort Worden State Park has been the setting for Voice Works, an immersion workshop-concert-dance camp celebrating ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Fiddle Tunes, a weeklong fiddle camp and workshop, kicks off Sunday at Fort Worden State Park, 200 Battery Way. The community is invited to attend four public performances. All ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sounds of fiddles, accordions and washboards will once again fill the air at Girard Park as Festivals Acadiens et Créoles ...

Members of the Cajun band T'Monde are young, but they like their music old.The band of 20-somethings opened the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on Friday with century-old, fiddle-heavy Cajun ...

When Michael Doucet first tried to play the traditional French-language music of his native Southwest Louisiana for his fellow Cajuns, nobody was much interested. Doucet, an amateur musicologist at ...

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, ...

Years ago, I was taking a fiddle workshop from an old-time musician who was keen on Cajun music. He shared a tune with the group of fiddlers, and proceeded to teach it. I remember feeling like it was ...

“A sweet stereo sound bath of fiddle tunes spiced with bluegrass, cajun, and honky tonk, and country classics” was once again heard at the Appalachian String Band Music Festival. One of many jams at ...

Legendary Cajun fusion band BeauSoleil will bring its 40-year songbook of toe-tapping tunes to Earlville Opera House at 8 p.m. Saturday. BeauSoleil has helped Cajun and zydeco music become popular ...

BREAUX BRIDGE, LA (WVUE) - Their ages run from the single digits to the teens, but they are performing the music of their great grandparents. And they sing and play Cajun French tunes with the ...