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 ...
The 2025 dates spanned October 10 through 11, 17 through 18, and 24 through 25, offering three weekends of oompah bands, ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
MOST people think of the accordion, if they think of it at all, as a social instrument, wheezing out polkas and folk tunes. The sound of it brings to mind French cafes, Mexican plazas, German beer ...
Punk accordion player Renee de la Prade is peddling the perfect New Year's gift: the Accordion Babes Pin-Up Calendar. For the third year in a row, she's collected the sexiest sisters of the squeezebox ...
Stanley Dural was born in 1947 in Lafayette, La., a close-knit community where many black people express their Creole heritage by speaking French, and by playing and dancing to zydeco. This hybrid ...
A blood drive will be held for Katie Guillory at LSU on Thursday, July 31, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. to help replace blood lost during her leg amputation surgery. We turn off the highway and drive a ...