Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chenier in 1984. The zydeco pioneer would have turned 100 this year. - Credit: Paul Natkin/Getty Images A few months ago, Joel ...

Festivals Acadiens et Créoles, the annual Cajun and zydeco music festival, is preparing to pay tribute to the renowned King of Zydeco, Clifton Chenier. The festival, a significant event celebrating ...

Grammy winner Chubby Carrier hosts a special Zydeco Capital Jam honoring Clifton Chenier's legacy ahead of the King's 101st birthday.

Clifton Chenier Centennial. In this centennial year of the birth of Clifton Chenier, many events and projects are celebrating the zydeco music pioneer and his international impact. Wednesday, June 25, ...

The late Clifton Chenier, Zydeco pioneer known for his Creole-inspired sound rooted in blues, Cajun and R&B, is being bolstered by the music community on his 100th birthday. To mark the occasion and ...

NEW YORK – The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger sings in swaggering French. Louisiana native Lucinda Williams delivers a slow, slinky, swamp pop sound. Steve Earle, Taj Mahal, Jimmie Vaughan, Charley ...

San Diego’s four-day Gator by the Bay festival will celebrate its 21st anniversary next Thursday through May 12 with more than 100 performances celebrating an array of homegrown American roots-music ...

Everyone has a list of those unsung musicians who strike a special chord. Names unknown to the public at large whose contributions go almost completely unrecognized or are overshadowed by others in ...

In the history of popular and vernacular music it is usually hard to pinpoint the genesis of a new genre or style on one particular individual. Many musicologists acknowledge today that blacks in ...

A few months ago, Joel Savoy, the Louisiana Cajun musician and label owner, was at a local pressing plant looking over the cover art for a just-finished tribute album to zydeco legend Clifton Chenier.