A Cajun radio station in South Louisiana has been broadcasting for 69 years. It's preserving the culture and the tradition of broadcasting live music from a bar every Saturday morning. There's a ...

VILLE PLATTE, La.— By 8:30 Saturday morning, the red-brick tavern called Fred's Lounge is already filled with rice farmers, bikers from New Orleans and wide-eyed French tourists ready to party. Some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Warren Perrin, lawyer and founder of the Acadian Museum in Erath, tells the story of how the Acadian people came to the U.S. and ...

PORT NECHES, Texas — Cajun French is a unique dialect only found in a small region of the world. Its influence can be heard in Southeast Texas music and even seen as the names of many local streets.

“This ain’t a history book. This ain’t a museum. This is a living, breathing culture,” shouted musician Jourdan Thibodeaux to a crowd at Festivals Acadiens et Créoles in Lafayette, worn out from ...

Last month, KVPI, a commercial radio station in Ville Platte, Louisiana, was awarded the “Uniquely Louisiana” award from the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters. The award was due in large part to ...

Cajun artist Zachary Richard has been writing, singing and working in French for over 50 years now. For him, the language is more than a way to celebrate southwest Louisiana's unique culture — it's a ...