This is a selective list of
links I have found useful.
Acadiana Area
Lafayette Visitors
Center Website For a die-hard Cajun &
Zydeco fan, Lafayette, Louisiana is Mecca.
This Web page includes tourist information,
event calendars, including a Festival
information page, with dates & contact
phone numbers, news releases and lots of other
helpful and interesting information about the
Mecca of Acadiana.
The Independent Weekly. Award-winning weekly independent newspaper & the only place to get the real scoop on Acadiana now. The Independent Weekly was launched in August of 2003 to provide a weekly forum for thinking, educated, involved readers who care deeply about Acadiana's future and help shape the community's vision for it.
KRVS Radio Acadie. The glue that holds us all together: KRVS is an indispensable source of information, ideas and cultural experience about south Louisiana. A listener-supported, public radio station, located in Lafayette, Louisiana, KRVS broadcasts live annually from the Cajun Music Festival, the Zydeco Festival, and the Festival International de Louisiane, as well as producing and airing live broadcasts of the Louisiana Crossroads series. They play Cajun music, Zydeco, Blues, Jazz, Swamp Pop, Swamp Rock, Louisiana singer/ songwriter music, and many other types of music created and played in Louisiana. Countless numbers of musicians have come into KRVS to play live and talk about their work--musicians such as Sonny Landreth, Michael Doucet, Zachary Richard, Steve Riley, David Greely, Christine Balfa & Dirk Powell, the Magnolia Sisters, Keith Frank, the late Beau Jocque, Mark Broussard, Henry Butler, the Red Stick Ramblers, Terrance Simien, Marcia Ball, Buckwheat Zydeco, and many others!
The Official City of Eunice Louisiana Website The website includes information on local festivals, Cajun culture, recipes and local dining & lodging, among other things.
The Patsy Report: a calendar of Cajun & Zydeco music and dance events, hosted by Arn B, with additional coverage across the US searchable by zipcode.
Louisiana Folk Roots Sponsors monthly jams, cultural workshops, and the outstanding Dewey Balfa Cajun & Creole Heritage Week in the spring.
Acadiana Center for the Arts Hosts art exhibitions, musical events and education.
Vermillionville A restored Acadian village on lovely grounds. Highlights includes weekly dances in a fabulous dance hall, Saturday Cajun music jams, & authentic cuisine.
Acadian Village A folk-life museum, recreating an 1800's Cajun village. Occasionally hosts music festivals.
Mardi Gras. The best places to find info on Mardi Gras in Southwest Louisiana are:
Major Acadiana Events and Festivals:
Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival in Plaisance, LA. I went to the 1996 festival and it was incredible. Check out their official web site. The Festival now has an official research archives established at the Opelousas Museum & Interpretive Center which contains over 14 years of Creole/Zydeco music performances, recorded live on video tape and in still photographs. Located at 329 North Main Street in Opelousas, hours of operation are 9 am - 5pm Monday - Friday.
Festivals Acadiens et Creoles..my FAVORITE of them all...in Lafayette, LA usually the 2nd weekend in October. Great music and cultural events during the day, great music in the clubs at night.
Crawfish Festival Breaux Bridge, LA, 1st weekend in May.
Festival International de Louisianne great Spring festival in Lafayette, LA.
The South Louisiana Black Pot Festival & Cookoff is one of the most unique festivals in Acadiana. Held annually at Lafayette’s Acadian Village, the festival is held in October with two days of great music, dancing, food, camping & jamming. Hosted by The Red Stick Ramblers.
Some Other Favorite Spots in Lafayette, LA & Vicinity:
Blue Moon (Lafayette)
Grant Street Dancehall (Lafayette)
Randol's (Lafayette) Cajun restaurant/dancehall with nightly live music on a be
Downtown Alive (Lafayette) Free live music most Friday nights
Cafe Des Amis (Breaux Bridge) Saturday morning is Zydeco brunch, plus live music each Wednesday night.
The Coffee Break (Breaux Bridge) - features a Cajun jam session every Saturday from 11am til around 2 30 or so
Mulate's 325 Mills Avenue, Breaux Bridge, LA 800-422-2586 337-332-4648 11AM to 10PM Daily
Angelle's Whiskey River Landing (Henderson)
McGee's Landing (Henderson)
Pat's Atchafalaya Club (Henderson)
NuNu's (Arnaudville) Music, dances, French conversation, great sandwiches, art gallery, cooking lessons... a veritable whirlwind of cultural activities!
Tom's Fiddle & Bow (Arnauldville) features a mostly Cajun jam session every Sunday from 1pm til around 3pm
Liberty Theater (Eunice)
Savoy Music Center (Eunice) - features a Cajun jam session every Saturday morning from 9 to 12 noon
Bourque's Social Club (Scott)
The Independent Weekly. Award-winning weekly independent newspaper & the only place to get the real scoop on Acadiana now. The Independent Weekly was launched in August of 2003 to provide a weekly forum for thinking, educated, involved readers who care deeply about Acadiana's future and help shape the community's vision for it.
KRVS Radio Acadie. The glue that holds us all together: KRVS is an indispensable source of information, ideas and cultural experience about south Louisiana. A listener-supported, public radio station, located in Lafayette, Louisiana, KRVS broadcasts live annually from the Cajun Music Festival, the Zydeco Festival, and the Festival International de Louisiane, as well as producing and airing live broadcasts of the Louisiana Crossroads series. They play Cajun music, Zydeco, Blues, Jazz, Swamp Pop, Swamp Rock, Louisiana singer/ songwriter music, and many other types of music created and played in Louisiana. Countless numbers of musicians have come into KRVS to play live and talk about their work--musicians such as Sonny Landreth, Michael Doucet, Zachary Richard, Steve Riley, David Greely, Christine Balfa & Dirk Powell, the Magnolia Sisters, Keith Frank, the late Beau Jocque, Mark Broussard, Henry Butler, the Red Stick Ramblers, Terrance Simien, Marcia Ball, Buckwheat Zydeco, and many others!
The Official City of Eunice Louisiana Website The website includes information on local festivals, Cajun culture, recipes and local dining & lodging, among other things.
The Patsy Report: a calendar of Cajun & Zydeco music and dance events, hosted by Arn B, with additional coverage across the US searchable by zipcode.
Louisiana Folk Roots Sponsors monthly jams, cultural workshops, and the outstanding Dewey Balfa Cajun & Creole Heritage Week in the spring.
Acadiana Center for the Arts Hosts art exhibitions, musical events and education.
Vermillionville A restored Acadian village on lovely grounds. Highlights includes weekly dances in a fabulous dance hall, Saturday Cajun music jams, & authentic cuisine.
Acadian Village A folk-life museum, recreating an 1800's Cajun village. Occasionally hosts music festivals.
Mardi Gras. The best places to find info on Mardi Gras in Southwest Louisiana are:
Major Acadiana Events and Festivals:
Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival in Plaisance, LA. I went to the 1996 festival and it was incredible. Check out their official web site. The Festival now has an official research archives established at the Opelousas Museum & Interpretive Center which contains over 14 years of Creole/Zydeco music performances, recorded live on video tape and in still photographs. Located at 329 North Main Street in Opelousas, hours of operation are 9 am - 5pm Monday - Friday.
Festivals Acadiens et Creoles..my FAVORITE of them all...in Lafayette, LA usually the 2nd weekend in October. Great music and cultural events during the day, great music in the clubs at night.
Crawfish Festival Breaux Bridge, LA, 1st weekend in May.
Festival International de Louisianne great Spring festival in Lafayette, LA.
The South Louisiana Black Pot Festival & Cookoff is one of the most unique festivals in Acadiana. Held annually at Lafayette’s Acadian Village, the festival is held in October with two days of great music, dancing, food, camping & jamming. Hosted by The Red Stick Ramblers.
Some Other Favorite Spots in Lafayette, LA & Vicinity:
Blue Moon (Lafayette)
Grant Street Dancehall (Lafayette)
Randol's (Lafayette) Cajun restaurant/dancehall with nightly live music on a be
Downtown Alive (Lafayette) Free live music most Friday nights
Cafe Des Amis (Breaux Bridge) Saturday morning is Zydeco brunch, plus live music each Wednesday night.
The Coffee Break (Breaux Bridge) - features a Cajun jam session every Saturday from 11am til around 2 30 or so
Mulate's 325 Mills Avenue, Breaux Bridge, LA 800-422-2586 337-332-4648 11AM to 10PM Daily
Angelle's Whiskey River Landing (Henderson)
McGee's Landing (Henderson)
Pat's Atchafalaya Club (Henderson)
NuNu's (Arnaudville) Music, dances, French conversation, great sandwiches, art gallery, cooking lessons... a veritable whirlwind of cultural activities!
Tom's Fiddle & Bow (Arnauldville) features a mostly Cajun jam session every Sunday from 1pm til around 3pm
Liberty Theater (Eunice)
Savoy Music Center (Eunice) - features a Cajun jam session every Saturday morning from 9 to 12 noon
Bourque's Social Club (Scott)
New Orleans
Satchmo.com: A guide
of New Orleans and Louisiana Music New
Orleans, A Virtual Library - compiled by Greg
Hardison. Everything you wanted to know about
New Orleans, plus lots you didn't know you
wanted to know! New Orleans & Louisiana
music (reviews, discography's, tour
schedules), news, weather, images, recreation,
tourism, business, conferences, gambling,
census, Mardi Gras, writers, sports...anything
missing? This is an incredible resource of
links and information.
NOLA Live Run by The Times-Picayune, this page includes links to Sounds, Restaurants, Weather, Vampire Sightings .. ie everything you want to know about New Orleans.
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Page - Info about Jazz Fest, including performers, schedules, food, crafts, maps, lots more.
Mid-City Lanes-Rock N Bowl - THE place to dance to zydeco (and sometimes Cajun) when you're in New Orleans. Zydeco night is Thursday with zydeco occasionally booked Wednesdays and weekends too .
Offbeat - New Orleans and Louisiana Music & Entertainment Magazine-published monthly with a searchable website. Excellent writing.
Gambit Weekly. New Orleans's weekly arts and entertainment magazine, with a very informative website.
NOLA Live Run by The Times-Picayune, this page includes links to Sounds, Restaurants, Weather, Vampire Sightings .. ie everything you want to know about New Orleans.
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Page - Info about Jazz Fest, including performers, schedules, food, crafts, maps, lots more.
Mid-City Lanes-Rock N Bowl - THE place to dance to zydeco (and sometimes Cajun) when you're in New Orleans. Zydeco night is Thursday with zydeco occasionally booked Wednesdays and weekends too .
Offbeat - New Orleans and Louisiana Music & Entertainment Magazine-published monthly with a searchable website. Excellent writing.
Gambit Weekly. New Orleans's weekly arts and entertainment magazine, with a very informative website.
Lousiana Information
Cajun/Zydeco
Music & Dance - One of the first Cajun
and zydeco sites on the web, this page,
maintained by Jeremy Rice, includes links to
extensive C/Z
information in Lousiana and nationally. There is also a great article here, found by going to the "Louisiana info" link, on planning a C/z trip to Southwest Louisiana. I agree with almost all of Jeremy's suggestions.
Clarence run's a great website based in and focused on Baton Rouge. There's a ton of information on his site...Here are quick links to finding Louisiana music on the radio:
Gary Hayman's ZydE-Magic Cajun/Zydeco Music and Dance Archive contains 13 years of writing (1993-2006) focused on the Zydeco and Cajun music and dance.Cajun Zydeco Festival Finder. Just what it says..jump to the this month's C/z festivals or .type in search criteria to find out what you're looking
Encyclopedia of Cajun Culture. Researched and written by Shane K. Bernard and Kara Tobin Bernard from New Iberia, LA, this is an extensive site
information in Lousiana and nationally. There is also a great article here, found by going to the "Louisiana info" link, on planning a C/z trip to Southwest Louisiana. I agree with almost all of Jeremy's suggestions.
Clarence run's a great website based in and focused on Baton Rouge. There's a ton of information on his site...Here are quick links to finding Louisiana music on the radio:
Gary Hayman's ZydE-Magic Cajun/Zydeco Music and Dance Archive contains 13 years of writing (1993-2006) focused on the Zydeco and Cajun music and dance.Cajun Zydeco Festival Finder. Just what it says..jump to the this month's C/z festivals or .type in search criteria to find out what you're looking
Encyclopedia of Cajun Culture. Researched and written by Shane K. Bernard and Kara Tobin Bernard from New Iberia, LA, this is an extensive site