The use of French and Creole in Louisiana has been on the decline for decades, although a number of initiatives and organizations are attempting to slow the slide and preserve the state’s unique ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) —The origins of New Orleans’ most beloved organizations are storied. By the early 1900s, women from New Orleans ...

“7th Ward kisses the Mississippi where Esplanade begins & sashays her bottom at Lake Pontchartrain ... ” Those lines, from a poem called “7th Ward” by storyteller and former Louisiana poet laureate ...

Swing Out from Vappie’s Creole Jazz Serenaders is an exuberant affair of traditional jazz loaded with sudden stops, quick changes, snappy high-hat cymbal snappings, clucking banjos and sailing trumpet ...

If you were ever curious as to what pre-jazz music might have sounded like in the Louisiana area, then Benoit LeBlanc's Mô kouzin mô kouzinn is the album for you. LeBlanc presents 27 Creole songs that ...