Festivals Acadiens et Créoles kicks off Friday in Girard Park, celebrating 49 years of Cajun and zydeco music and heritage in Louisiana this weekend. “If you know nothing about our culture ...

Festivals Acadiens et Créoles, the world’s largest free Cajun and Creole music festival held annually in Lafayette, announced plans to come back stronger than ever in 2022. The festival was presented ...

In its earliest usage in colonial Louisiana, Creole — créole in French or criollo in Spanish — referred to any person born in the Americas of European or African ancestry. Over time ...

For the second time in over 47 years, the world’s largest Cajun and Creole festival is hosting its second full-scale FREE festival in 2022. The theme, Ensemble Encore. Ensemble Toujours.

Last week came news that lit up my family group text: The new Pope, Leo XIV, the cleric formerly known as Robert Francis Prevost, is, like me, descended from a long line of Catholic Creoles.

As part of the melting pot of French, Spanish, African and Native American cultures in Louisiana, the pope’s maternal ancestors would be considered Creole. “It was special for me because I ...