Nicknamed “The Zydeco Sweetheart,” Rosie Ledet is the foremost female Zydeco musician to come out of Louisiana. Her decade-long career has included the release of ten records (most recently 2012’s Slap Your Mama) as well as numerous awards from The Black Heritage Association of Louisiana and others. Read more.
Houston native Ruben Moreno sits at the joint of Zydeco and R&B, using his band Zydeco Re-Evolution to connect the traditions he was surrounded by while growing up with the constantly changing modern trends of the music’s culture. Read more.
Nathan Williams began his music career in the 80s as a kind of therapy following a serious illness. After mastering the accordion, the South Louisiana native and Creole-speaker gathered his family around him and formed the Zydeco Cha Chas – a band that has carried on the Zydeco traditional for three decades now. Read more.
Jazz has Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington, rock has Lynyrd Skynyrd and Zydeco has Canray Fontenot. The Creole fiddler was an award-winning Louisiana musician whose original compositions withstood the test of time to become standards in traditional Zydeco and Cajun music. Read more.
October is the anniversary of a landmark recording in zydeco. In 1975 Clifton Chenier and his Red Hot Louisiana Band trekked to the Studio in the Country, in Bogalusa, Louisiana to lay down Bogalusa Boogie, a record that still holds up today. Read more.
To kick off our Zydeco Crossroads project, the legendary C.J. Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band performed at this summer’s XPOnential Music Festival. Watch a performance and interview video trailer for a documentary. Read more
Houston-born musician Corey Ledet is a lifelong student of Zydeco music, having begun his playing career when he was just ten years old with Wilbert Thibodeaux and the Zydeco Rascals. Read more.
The legendary Buckwheat Zydeco is devleoping a new YouTube video series called Buckwheat’s World. According to his website “Buckwheat’s World” is a new way to showcase Buck’s music and more. Read more