For the past 39 years, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet has been making some of the most potent and popular Cajun music on the planet. Born out of the rich Acadian ancestry of its members, and created ...

Heralded by luminaries ranging from Bob Dylan (“That’s my kind of music”) to New Orleans musical icon Allen Toussaint (“BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, they play music that’s honest to the bone!”), ...

Ask band leader and fiddle player Michael Doucet of BeauSoleil how many Grammys his band has won, and he’ll tell you two-and-a-half. The half was for “Down at The Twist and Shout” with Mary Chapin ...

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 ...

The Cajun music of south Louisiana has many different influences -- French Canadian folk music, French Caribbean dance music and African American blues -- but one of its principal sources has been ...

When the Colonial Theatre opens its doors on February 24, the inspired bookers at the Berkshire Theatre Group will transport its audiences down to New Orleans with a night of rollicking zydeco, jazz, ...

SHEFFIELD — According to Michael Doucet, Cajun music comes from a great many people and places — at its heart, an oral tradition of a stubborn French diaspora met with African, Native American and ...

For the past 50 years, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet has been making some of the most potent and popular Cajun music on the planet. Born out of the rich Acadian ancestry of its members, and created ...