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The music of Louisiana can be divided into three general regions: rural south Louisiana, home to Creole Zydeco and Old French (now known as cajun music), New Orleans, and north Louisiana. The region in and around Greater New Orleans has a unique musical heritage tied to Dixieland jazz, blues , and Afro-Caribbean rhythms.
This list of songs or music-related items is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. ( October 2021 ) This is a list of notable Cajun musicians , Cajun music instrument makers, Cajun music folklorists, Cajun music historians, and Cajun music activists.
Zydeco (/ ˈ z aɪ d ɪ ˌ k oʊ,-d iː-/ ZY-dih-koh, -dee-; French: zarico) is a music genre that was created in rural Southwest Louisiana by Afro-Americans of Creole heritage. It blends blues and rhythm and blues with music indigenous to the Louisiana Creoles , such as la la and juré .
A Cajun dancer will cover the dance floor while the zydeco dancer will primarily dance in a smaller area. Cajun music can be found predominantly at Louisiana festivals and dance halls, in addition to weddings in Acadiana. Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival, 2015. In 1968, CODOFIL (the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana) was created ...
BeauSoleil is one of a few groups performing traditional Louisiana music to win a Grammy Award. L'Amour Ou La Folie (Love Or Folly), recorded in 1996 and released on Rhino Records, earned the 1997 Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album.
Artists who were born in, have lived in, have worked in or been involved with Louisiana. Subcategories This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.
A performance by Dewey Balfa, Gladius Thibodeaux and Vinus LeJeune at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival was one major reason behind a revived interest in traditional Cajun music in the mid-1960s. [10] In 1972, the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana started an annual festival that came to be known as Festivals Acadiens.