Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. When European settlers arrived on the shores of North America in the early ...

On her fine new collection of soulful vocal music, La Violette, St. Albans native Michèle Choinière demonstrates once again that traditional French music in North America is not the sole property of ...

Cajun music is rooted in the songs and fiddle tunes of the Acadians—French speakers who migrated from France to Canada in the seventeenth century, and from Canada to Louisiana in the eighteenth ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (WAFB) - Students at one Louisiana university are able to study Cajun fiddle, the accordion, and even learn how to sing Cajun French songs, and get a degree in it. It’s called ...

Latyr Sy, a Senegalese percussionist and singer, was one of 75 researchers who played music for the study. Patrick Savage, University of Auckland The human voice is perhaps the oldest and most diverse ...