On this day in 1932, a singer-songwriter known as the “Cajun Hank Williams” was born and changed the Cajun genre forever.

The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band has been playing together since 1977. The band includes husband and wife Marc and Ann Savoy, on accordion and guitar respectively, and Michael Doucet of Beausoleil on ...

Social music -- Early commercial era -- A heterogeneous tradition -- Becoming the folk -- Cajun swing era -- The modern Cajun sound -- Cajun national anthem -- A new mental world 'Cajun Breakdown' ...

Jimmy C. Newman grew up in French Louisiana, hearing Cajun music as well as Gene Autry and other country musicians. He began playing with Chuck Guillory’s Rhythm Boys. Later he played on the Louisiana ...

For more than 40 years, BeauSoleil bandleader Michael Doucet has been carrying on a musical tradition that once was in danger of extinction. When he started studying and playing Cajun music in the ...

When Council for the Development of French in Louisiana Chairman James Domengeaux and a group of academics, activists and musicians decided to throw a concert celebrating Cajun music and culture in ...