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 ...

In Ann Allen Savoy`s book ”Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People” (Bluebird Press, Eunice, La., 1984), Bois Sec Ardoin, an accordion player from Louisiana, contributed a vivid account of the rural ...

Randy Falcon wore many hats — musician, pioneer accordion builder, teacher, second generation owner of the Falcon Rice Mill. He was a mechanic, father figure, and mentor. The life and many talents of ...

A new, but still traditional Cajun song might seem a contradiction, but it makes perfect sense to Bruce Daigrepont. Unlike most Cajun and zydeco musicians, Daigrepont (pronounced day-cray-pon) ...

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, ...

Jo-El Sonnier has been recording music since he was 11 years old. Now at the ripe old age of 69, Sonnier hasn’t grown tired of music. He’s been working hard and playing his signature accordion for ...

Advocate Photo by LEE CELANO - Steve Riley talks with student Georgia Theaux following an Intermediate Cajun accordion class as part of the 2015 Dewey Balfa Cajun and Creole Week at Vermilionville, ...

PORT ALLEN, LA (WAFB) - The Cajun accordion, with its lively wail, is a sound that is as uniquely Louisiana as sausage jambalaya or seafood gumbo and for one Port Allen family, the love affair with ...

Children in Eunice recently experienced the joy of music firsthand at Louisiana State University at Eunice (LSU-E), where a unique cultural outreach program invited them to explore traditional and ...

"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 ...

BEAUMONT — The accordion is Ed Poullard's birthright. But for decades, his inheritance was simply the music that came from the push-button box. It was a bounty of tunes he learned from his father, ...

The first day of this year's New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival culminated in back-to-back sets by West London's Mumford & Sons and North Carolina's The Avett Brothers before a crowd more than ...