The community is invited to join the Bayou Vermilion District’s Vermilionville as they celebrate their annual Acadian Culture Day on Sunday, Aug. 14th from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. at their historic village ...
Frank Kincel laid the back beat for bands like The Bluerunners, The Fusebox and Modern Jazz Movement. Now he’s turned his knowledge of the skins into LA BackBeat, making drumsticks out of a shop in Freetown ...
For the last year, spoken word poet and Lyrically Inclined founder Alex “PoeticSoul” Johnson has been in and out of the Lafayette Juvenile Detention Center to rally the voices of more than 30 detained children into one threeminute poem ...
Louisiana Folk Roots and the Comeaux Memorial Endowed Chair in Traditional Music have announced the inaugural Roots Camp for ages 14-17 starting from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, July 25-27, in Angelle Hall on the UL Lafayette campus ...
We need to face up to how the “new New Orleans,” so celebrated by the Mayor and the self-anointed civic elite, in fact amounts to a hostile assault on African-American families and the working poor ...