Back in its second year, the Great Lakes Folk Festival rippled with old blues masters. Johnny Bassett was 67 and rocking hard; Alberta Adams was 86. But the flip side was Feufollet — some Lafayette, ...

Q: I moved here from Miami years ago and was quite the tuna salad snob until I discovered the tuna salad at Rusty Rooster’s/Folks, which I absolutely loved! It seems every place else that offers tuna ...

URBANA — The Spurlock Museum and the Champaign-Urbana Folk & Roots Festival will bring a little Cajun culture to C-U from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, 202 S.

NATCHITOCHES, La. – The 42nd Annual Natchitoches-NSU Folk Festival has announced the addition of an interactive workshop entitled “Beginning Cajun Guitar,” which will feature instruction by ...

Surrounded by paintings, bright colors, projects in the making and inspirational quotes painted on the walls, Cajun folk artist Dottie Theriot Ratliff paints scenes of her childhood and life in her ...

For more than 20 years, Feufollet has performed dual roles in the Cajun music scene in southwest Louisiana. The first is as a conservator of the music that is rooted in the region, playing spot-on ...

The French-Cajun sounds of BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet come to the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College at 7 p.m. Saturday. Since forming in 1975, Grammy winner BeauSoleil has claimed an ...

A Louisiana native, Doucet was awarded a Folk Arts Apprenticeship by the National Endowment for the Arts. He turned aside from his original intent to study the Romantic poets, instead delving into the ...

Cajun Country Revival will host a Cajun dance party at Barking Legs Theater Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at at the door and available here. This is an evening for dancers and ...

Cajun musician Emerson "Ray" Abshire played his final song while riding in a wagon during Mamou's annual Courir de Mardi Gras. Abshire, 68, died unexpectedly Tuesday during the drive from Mamou back ...

Dusty Reed has always collected odds and ends — used sanding discs, gears and chimes from an old clock, scrap blocks of wood, wire, nails, nuts and bolts. For a long time he'd keep them in a junk ...