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Sharing the food, music, culture, and history at the heart of Cajun & Creole Country.

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GRAMMYs in Acadiana: Music Goldmine

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GRAMMY award-winning and nominated musicians from Acadiana Music has been the soul of Acadiana since the area's humble beginnings, with a melting pot of Cajuns, Creoles, European, and Native American cultures inspiring fresh new sounds. South Louisiana has fostered folk music, country, rock, rhythm…

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Cajun & Creole Instruments: Accordion

By Rien Fertel on

A relatively recent invention, the bellows-driven, vibrating reed squeezebox known as the accordion, was first manufactured in Germany and later in Russia in the 1820s. It is unknown who brought the first accordion to South Louisiana or which French Creole or Acadian first played the instrument, but…

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