While some Afro-Creole musicians from Louisiana and Texas are adding hip-hop beats and autotuned R&B vocals to their accordion-propelled zydeco sound, twenty-somethings Cedric Watson et Bijou Creole, who are appearing at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage tonight, are going in a different direction. Watson, once a member of the Pine Leaf Boys, was first known [...]

Louisiana Creole and Cajun music has long had a home in the D.C. area.  From the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the Twist and Shout club and Wolf Trap’s “Swamp Romp” to Texas Fred Carter’s WPFW Saturday afternoon radio show and dances at Glen Echo Park,  distinctive fiddle and accordion-led bayou sounds have always been on the [...]