SHEFFIELD — According to Michael Doucet, Cajun music comes from a great many people and places — at its heart, an oral tradition of a stubborn French diaspora met with African, Native American and ...

The Grammy-winning Michael Doucet, known for the Cajun sound he joyfully shares with the world through his long-term band, BeauSoleil, is now shaking it up with a new band and new music which “isn’t ...

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 ...

Heralded by luminaries ranging from Bob Dylan (“That’s my kind of music”) to New Orleans musical icon Allen Toussaint (“BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, they play music that’s honest to the bone!”), ...

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 ...

Cajun music is rooted in the songs and fiddle tunes of the Acadians—French speakers who migrated from France to Canada in the seventeenth century, and from Canada to Louisiana in the eighteenth ...

LIVE MUSIC: Delcambre Shrimp Festival, Festival Grounds, 10 a.m. GRACE NOVOSAD & MIKE LARSON & THE ONES WHO GOT AWAY: Hideaway on Lee, Lafayette, 11 a.m. LIVE MUSIC: Cane River Pecan Company Pie Bar, ...

New Orleans —The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) and Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser announced Tuesday that Michael Doucet, musician and founder of BeauSoleil, has been named 2026 Humanist of ...

We are live with BeauSoleil, the venerable Cajun roots, folk and modernist band, looking back and ahead after fifty years. Brothers Michael and David Doucet were joined by Michael’s son Matthew, also ...

LAFAYETTE PARISH (LAFAYETTE) — Grammy-winning artist Michael Doucet and Louisiana Poet Laureate John Warner Smith are teaming up for a unique performance that will blend music and poetry in a special ...

LIVE MUSIC: Cane River Pecan Company Pie Bar, New Iberia, 5 p.m. AUDREY BROUSSARD: Charley G's Seafood Grill, Lafayette, 6 p.m. COWBOY KEN: Prejean's, Broussard, 6 p ...