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.
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Artist Spotlight: Houston’s Ruben Moreno & Zydeco Re-Evolution
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.
Artist Spotlight: Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas
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.
Exploring Zydeco standards with fiddler Canray Fontenot
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.
Celebrating 39 years of Clifton Chenier’s Bogalusa Boogie
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.
Watch C.J. Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band at XPoNential Music Festival
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
Learning how to Zydeco dance with Cupid
Watch Corey Ledet and his Zydeco Band perform “Promised Land Two Step” for KRVS
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.
Welcome to Buckwheat’s World!
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