JENNINGS, La. — Registration is open for the seventh annual “Battle of the Bows” Cajun Fiddle Competition. The competition is open to all Cajun-style fiddle playing. This year’s event will be held ...

Jennings, LA - The historic Strand Theater in Jennings will host Louisiana's premier Cajun fiddle competition on November 1, featuring multiple age categories and $3,400 in prize money. The 9th Annual ...

JENNINGS, La. (KPLC) - If you’re a fan of Cajun music, then make your way down to the Battle of The Bows Cajun fiddle contest where players of all ages come together to share a bond of Cajun culture ...

A common dynamic binds Cajun fiddle playing and the melodic rhythms of Cape Breton sound. Neither is highly structured or technically intricate in its expressions, but both sure make you feel good ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - A great way to get people together is through music, and that is exactly what Battle of the Bows accomplished. Battle of the Bows is a competition that is meant to spread ...

Born in Church Point in 1929, Ellis Vanicor's Cajun sound would become indelibly linked with a little community smack in the middle of Jennings and Lake Charles — Lacassine. A self-taught fiddler, ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Members of the Cajun band T'Monde are young, but they like their music old. The band of 20-somethings opened the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Friday with century-old, ...

In last year’s Wheeler Opera House performance, Louisiana’s Beausoleil played its Cajun fiddle music with few twists. But on “Gitane Cajun,” purportedly an homage to a trio of deceased Louisiana ...

A fiddle-playing Cajun pixie named Dixie comes to life in the pages of a local author's book and readers can get a chance to meet the author and get a free copy when they have a po-boy. "Dixie The ...

Rufus Thibodeaux was arguably the pre-eminent Cajun fiddler of the past half-century. Best known for his long association with the country star Jimmy C. Newman, he also performed alongside such ...

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