When traditional Cajun and Creole musicians take to the stage, one mark of their genius is how easy they make it look. Whether they are wielding an accordion, a fiddle, or some other folk instrument, ...

Randy Falcon, the legendary Cajun instrument maker who patented the double accordion, died Saturday night from complications of Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 69. The Crowley native is best known for ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (WAFB) - Students at one Louisiana university are able to study Cajun fiddle, the accordion, and even learn how to sing Cajun French songs, and get a degree in it. It’s called ...

Despite never learning to read or write, Nathan Abshire helped revive the accordion’s place in Cajun music. Also despite his talent and popularity, Abshire never was able to live entirely off his ...

The third installment of “Cajun Accordion Kings” is taking place on Saturday, March 30 at 6 p.m. at the Liberty Theater in Eunice. This show will celebrate legendary Cajun accordion players Paul ...

The autobiographical Made in Louisiana tells the evolutionary journey of how Marc Savoy, a farmer’s son and chemical engineering graduate, became the world’s foremost builder of the premier Cajun ...

IOTA, La. (WAFB) - Cajun musicians will tell you that the best sounding accordions are the ones that are handcrafted in south Louisiana and one of those Cajun accordion makers is Larry Miller. For ...

Born near Church Point, Louisiana to a farming family, Iry LeJeune (1928-1955), near blind from birth, turned to music as a young child. It was his cousin, Angeles LeJeune, who first introduced him to ...

"I don't know how to play it, but I'm dying for a red one," said Metairie resident Dale Fleishmann at the New Orleans Jazz Fest, when she stopped at the Martin Accordion booth in the Laissez Le Bon ...

JENNINGS, LA (AP) - Guests filled up every seat in the Strand Theatre in downtown Jennings Saturday afternoon for the 10th Annual Squeezebox Shootout Cajun Accordion Championship. More than 400 guests ...

Randy Falcon, the legendary Cajun instrument maker who patented the double accordion, died Saturday night from complications of Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 69. The Crowley native is best known for ...