Michael Doucet and his newest band, Lacher Prise, celebrate a timeless blend of Acadian music traditions inflected with an eclectic, contemporary mix of swampy soul and infectious grooves. Doucet, who could arguably be called the father of modern Cajun music, started out in... Read more

The Babineaux Sisters Band has been a part of the music scene for several years, bringing their own sound and style to Cajun music. Leading the band are the two sisters, Gracie and Julie Babineaux. Gracie is the lead vocalist and also plays the accordion, fiddle, and mandoc... Read more

Cameron Dupuy and the Cajun Troubadours showcase the accordion and guitar-playing talents of Cameron Dupuy, son of Cajun musician Michael Dupuy. As a child he often found himself up on stage with his dad, but it wasn’t until after Hurricane Katrina that eleven-year-old Came... Read more

Amis Du Teche is a relative newcomer, although the members of this lively Cajun band are all practiced musicians who grew up together along Bayou Teche in the Breaux Bridge area just east of Lafayette, Louisiana. Leader Adeline Miller has performed across the country and in... Read more

Sarah Quintana is a multi-faceted singer-songwriter who employs her angelic voice and guitar chops to weave effortlessly between folk, jazz, Cajun, and French stylings. Her 2024 release, Live in Marseilles, is quintessential Quintana: ballads, danceable tunes, and classics ... Read more

Leslie Martin, a native of Chauvin, Louisiana, is a fluid and adaptable pianist at home as both a bandleader and a sideman, performing capably across genres ranging from jazz to Cajun, to country to rock. He has played with a host of high-powered artists including Pete Foun... Read more

Accordionist Bruce Daigrepont is a fixture on the New Orleans Cajun music scene. Indeed, many credit him as being the scene, or, at least, carrying the genre’s flag for decades across the Crescent City.  In 1980 the 22-year-old Daigrepont began a weekly Cajun fais do-do (da... Read more

Fiddler Amanda Shaw has grown from a child prodigy to a mature and enduring force in contemporary Cajun music. The festival favorite, born in 1991, grew up in Mandeville, Louisiana, took her first classical violin lesson at age four, and at age seven became the youngest sol... Read more

Tab Benoit emerged on the blues guitar scene in the early 1990s with his swampy, hard-driving sound and has become one of the genre’s most enduring and talented forces. The Houma, Louisiana native grew up with local Cajun and country influences, and wound his way to Baton R... Read more

Louis Michot may be one of the busiest musicians in Louisiana. When not touring hard with the Grammy-winning Lost Bayou Ramblers or with his own band, the more unconventional Michot’s Melody Makers, he is leading the charge to preserve and enhance Cajun French and folklore,... Read more