Get ready to dance, dine, and celebrate Cajun and Creole culture — Festivals Acadiens et Créoles returns to Girard Park Oct.

Festivals Acadiens et Créoles returns to Girard Park, October 10–12, 2025, bringing together the best of Cajun and Creole ...

Two unique workshops centered on Southwest Louisiana's popular music genres, Cajun and Zydeco, will be presented at this year's Spice & Music Festival scheduled for June 4-6, 2010 in historic downtown ...

The world's largest free Cajun and Creole music festival returns to Lafayette this spring. Festivals Acadiens et Créoles will be hosting two festivals in 2022 with the theme "The Great Return" or "Le ...

Festivals Acadiens et Créoles has showcased 51 years of Cajun, Creole culture. Here's why for some, it's their happy place.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s Cajun and Creole heritage takes center stage this weekend when the Festivals Acadiens et Creoles marks a half-century of honoring and celebrating the culture through ...

Decades ago, if people wanted to hear Cajun or Zydeco music, they had to go to a dancehall or a bar, or they heard it at home. It was not until Festivals Acadiens et Créoles, the original and largest ...

Fifty years ago, residents of southwest Louisiana had a slightly different relationship with the region's traditional Cajun and Creole music. Fiddles, accordions and French songs would regularly fill ...

If you're looking for a destination that's off the beaten path, this small Louisiana town can provide an experience full of ...

Festivals Acadiens et Creoles marks its 51st year Oct. 10-12 in Lafayette's Girard Park. The three-day event is celebration ...

Barry Ancelet, then 23 and a University of Louisiana at Lafayette student, was plenty worried on a stormy night at Blackham Coliseum 50 years ago this day. Stakes were high. Assigned to work at the ...