A new Cajun Creole restaurant named Kouzens has opened in Peoria. The menu features dishes such as crawfish etouffee, fried frog legs and gator bites. Kouzens is located at 718 W. Glen Ave., the ...

On this day (October 29) in 1952, Hank Williams was at No. 1 on all three of the Billboard country charts with “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)”. It spent 11 weeks atop the Most-Played Juke Box Country & ...

Jourdan Thibodeaux, who has been hailed as the future of Cajun music, will perform today and Saturday at The Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua. Courtesy photo The CBS News show “60 Minutes” recently ...

EVANGELINE PARISH — "It is a unique festival, we celebrate our traditional Cajun music,” says volunteer TJ Landreneau—and the memories are everywhere you look. Preparations are underway for this ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 18, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. The idea that this country has become one big, bland, conformist culture, the United ...

The marshy interior of southern Louisiana is home to a cuisine, language and sound all its own. Today, Cajun and Zydeco music, often sung in French, is enjoying a renaissance. A couple renovated their ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)— Ahead of the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana singer and fiddler Amanda Shaw is releasing a new song honoring New Orleans. Shaw lived through Hurricane Katrina, and ...

Southwest Louisiana is one of the most unique areas of the United States. Officially known as Acadiana, the region is home to a wide range of cultural influences — from Cajun, Creole, Indigenous ...

When "60 Minutes" came to the Lafayette area last fall to film a segment on Cajun and zydeco music, they were confronted with the energy of a thriving cultural scene. CBS correspondent Jon Wertheim ...

Louisiana's Cajun Country is one of the most unique areas of the United States. It's officially called Acadiana, after the French-speaking Acadians, or Cajuns, who settled there after being exiled ...

On Sunday’s episode of 60 MINUTES, correspondent Jon Wertheim visited southwest Louisiana, where the sounds of Cajun and Zydeco music – long the soundtrack in this singular pocket of America – are ...