Music

Tuesday with Friends: A Summer Series of Music, Stories & Community

LAKE CHARLES, La (press release) – The City of Lake Charles presents “Tuesdays with Friends” a weekly event designed to bring the community together through live music, storytelling, and conversation. It is an intimate, laid back series where music, storytelling,…

Celebrating Cajun and Creole Music History in Eunice

The prairie town of Eunice bursts with Cajun and Creole music history and a good day to visit is Saturday when several museums dedicated to music are open and it’s almost a given live music will be playing somewhere. They…

Ben Folds & A Piano at Heymann This September

LAFAYETTE, La (press release) – Singer-songwriter Ben Folds is heading to Lafayette’s Heymann Center at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 24 with his Ben Folds & a Piano tour, announced Performing Arts Serving Acadiana (PASA). Tickets go on sale at 10…

Downtown Alive! Presents its Spring 2025 Lineup

LAFAYETTE, La (press release) – Downtown Lafayette is thrilled to announce its Downtown Alive! lineup for the 2025 Spring season presented by longstanding downtown supporter, Evangeline Maid. “For our 42nd year, we wanted to create a Spring season full of…

A Look at Art, Music and Performance Spaces Around Acadiana

Acadians are bursting with creativity, whether it’s coming from our indigenous culture or from visiting visual and performing artists. Literally every corner of our region offers special cultural experiences. Whatever your passion desires when it comes to the arts, Acadiana…

Downtown Alive! Presents its 2024 ‘First Friday’ Music Lineup

LAFAYETTE, La (press release) – Downtown Lafayette Unlimited (DLU) introduces “First Friday” Downtown Alive! for the 2024 calendar year presented by longstanding downtown supporter, Evangeline Maid. LVVRS will kick-off this year’s first Downtown Alive! on March 1st. Other notable performances…

Broadway's Jessie Mueller and Seth Rudetsky at Heymann Center

LAFAYETTE, La (press release) – When Seth Rudetsky teams up with Jessie Mueller – star of the Broadway hits "Waitress" and "Beautiful the Musical" – magic happens in a non-stop, off-the-cuff night of show-stopping tunes and all around fun. Rudetsky,…

The Listening Room continues Jan. 7

LAFAYETTE, La (press release) – Acadiana Symphony Orchestra and Acadiana Center for the Arts are pleased to present the second concert of this season’s Listening Room Chamber Music Series, on Sunday, Jan. 7, at 2 p.m. at the AcA’s James…

Holidays in Acadiana

The holidays roll in Acadiana like a slow-moving fog, teasing us with festivities at the beginning of the month until we’re blanketed with the trifecta of Hanukkah, Christmas and KwanzaA. But the fun doesn’t stop there in Louisiana. After we…

Music Makers

For several years, the Illinois-born singer-songwriter Andrew Bird has been travelling into natural and urban landscapes — the Coyote Gulch canyon of Utah, say, or under the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge in Los Angeles — to compose music that he bases…

The Back Door is Always Open

This July marks the fourth anniversary of the passing of musician D. L. Ménard, the author of "La Porte en Arrière (The Back Door)", the most recorded and performed Cajun song according to folklorist Barry Jean Ancelet. It competes with…

Spring Festivals

The awe-inspiring diversity of Louisiana is easily taken for granted. A quick survey of the state’s spring festivals — Louisiana is home to more annual festivals than there are days in the year — is an apt reminder that there’s…

Tops of Acadiana

In Acadiana, there’s no shortage of delectable food, boogie-down music, talented individuals, stylish shops, tasty brews and places for cultural enlightenment or entertaining adventures. Which makes it nearly impossible to pick and choose favorites. Perhaps we are gluttons for punishment, …