Music
Bobby Rush
A dynamic singer, songwriter, and harmonica player from Claiborne Parish, Rush mixes funk, soul, and blues music and won Grammy Awards in his eighties.
A dynamic singer, songwriter, and harmonica player from Claiborne Parish, Rush mixes funk, soul, and blues music and won Grammy Awards in his eighties.
Although Bocage's early history is hazy, local tradition has maintained that the house was built in 1801 by Emanuel Marius Pons Bringier as a wedding gift for his fourteen-year-old daughter, Françoise.
Alfonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin was an accomplished Zydeco accordion musician.
Boudin is a Cajun sausage made of meat and rice typically consumed with the filling removed from the casing and often squeezed directly into the mouth.
With a steadfast regional following and hyperlocal lyrics in its earliest days, bounce music’s upbeat, danceable, participatory style now attracts an international audience.
The origins of the notorious adult playground
Branford Marsalis and his family were recipients of the 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award, the nation's highest honor for jazz musicians.
Stale loaves of bread get a sweet rebirth in this popular baked dessert.
Recipes for this baked dessert can turn stale bread into a delicious treat.
Spears is one of the best-known artists to emerge from Louisiana, having achieved international commercial success at an early age.
Declared locally extinct in 1963, the brown pelican population rebounded in the state due to efforts by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
Accordionist Stanley Dural, Jr., was zydeco's most commercially successful performer and an unofficial ambassador of the musical genre and Creole culture. Better known as "Buckwheat Zydeco," Dural helped introduce traditional Creole music to the mainstream.
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