Zydeco takes Cajun music and infuses it with the sounds of the blues and R&B. A modern zydeco band is generally electric, but also features the accordion and the washboard, also known as the frottoir.

J., who explains that "zydeco and the blues were like kissing cousins." The blues in Houston was a scene of comings and goings, a port of call that took root and developed its own formidable scene.

It is impossible to think of American music in this century without such Southern-derived forms as ragtime, jazz, blues, country, gospel, rhythm and blues, Cajun, zydeco, and rock'n'roll.

"The way I learned about zydeco music was from my dad," CJ Chenier said. "And it was always a melting pot — boogie-woogie, blues, waltzes, swing stuff — that's what he did. "When I went on my ...

HENDERSON, Ky. (WFIE) - It’s day two of the W.C. Handy Blues and Barbecue festival in Henderson. Tonight is Zydeco night at the music festival. That means you can expect the famous red beans and ...

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Bayou City Blues" and "Texas Zydeco"), KPFT-FM host Nuri Nuri and Houston-born music industry executive/producer Bill Bentley. They paint a picture of Houston as a Gulf Coast crossroads ...

Showing good reinvention skills over the decades since its “Dixieland Jazz” start in 1990, the 32nd annual Redwood Coast ...

Festival co-founder Pat Mould said the festival is a “self-celebration of who we are, how we live, what we eat, the music and how we speak.” Zydeco artiest Wayne Toups plays the accordion and ...

“Whether it is R&B, Dance, Country, Rap, Zydeco, Blues, Opera, Gospel ... I’ve experienced this for 25 years in the music industry. Black artists, and other artists of color, have been ...