Scores of cultures developed along the banks of the Mississippi River. Dennis Stroughmatt learned appreciation of the fiddle in the historically French Creole community of Old Mines, near Ste.

The use of French and Creole in Louisiana has been on the decline for decades, although a number of initiatives and organizations are attempting to slow the slide and preserve the state’s unique ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) —The origins of New Orleans’ most beloved organizations are storied. By the early 1900s, women from New Orleans’ Red Light District, 7th Ward Creoles of color along with women of ...

Preserving the French Creole culture of southern Illinois, Indiana and Missouri has been a mission of educator and musician Dennis Stroughmatt. The fiddler and historian presents “French Creole Fiddle ...

The term "creole" is one of those protean things whose meaning hinges on the context in which it is used. At the very least, it tends to suggest some degree of acculturation or multiple ethnic ...

BREAUX BRIDGE, La. — Corey Ledet, lead singer in Corey Ledet and His Zydeco Band, belts out lyrics to an old zydeco tune in Louisiana French while literally bending the accordion to his will and ...

This story by Sonia Narang originally appeared on PRI.org on July 24, 2017. It is republished here as part of a partnership between PRI and Global Voices. The Vancouver Jazz Festival recently drew ...

Chantal Grosléziat, illus. by Laurent Corvaisier. The Secret Mountain (IPG, dist.), $16.95 (64p) ISBN 978-2-923163-82-6 Thirty French Creole children’s songs, popular throughout the Caribbean, are ...

In 2018, Louisiana became the first U.S. state to join l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), a global organization of more than 90 countries, governments and states united by French ...