Leslie Martin, a native of Chauvin, Louisiana, is a fluid and adaptable pianist at home as both a bandleader and a sideman, performing capably across genres ranging from jazz to Cajun, to country to rock. He has played with a host of high-powered artists including Pete Foun... Read more

Accordionist Bruce Daigrepont is a fixture on the New Orleans Cajun music scene. Indeed, many credit him as being the scene, or, at least, carrying the genre’s flag for decades across the Crescent City.  In 1980 the 22-year-old Daigrepont began a weekly Cajun fais do-do (da... Read more

Fiddler Amanda Shaw has grown from a child prodigy to a mature and enduring force in contemporary Cajun music. The festival favorite, born in 1991, grew up in Mandeville, Louisiana, took her first classical violin lesson at age four, and at age seven became the youngest sol... Read more

Tab Benoit emerged on the blues guitar scene in the early 1990s with his swampy, hard-driving sound and has become one of the genre’s most enduring and talented forces. The Houma, Louisiana native grew up with local Cajun and country influences, and wound his way to Baton R... Read more

Sonny Landreth is one of the most singular slide guitarists of our time. The self-described “native stepson” of South Louisiana cut his early chops with Clifton Chenier’s legendary Red Hot Louisiana Band, and is known as the “King of Slydeco” for his zydeco-inflected rhythm... Read more

Louis Michot may be one of the busiest musicians in Louisiana. When not touring hard with the Grammy-winning Lost Bayou Ramblers or with his own band, the more unconventional Michot’s Melody Makers, he is leading the charge to preserve and enhance Cajun French and folklore,... Read more

The Lost Bayou Ramblers inflect traditional acoustic Cajun music with a contemporary hipster’s punk rock energy, and the Grammy-winning group is a favorite at home in Louisiana and around the world. Fiddler Louis Michot (pronounced ME-show) and his brother, accordionist and... Read more

Geno Delafose, zydeco accordionist and singer, combines traditional Cajun and Creole musics with the dancehall rhythms and contemporary sounds to create his own “nouveau zydeco.” The Grammy-nominated Delafose, son of legendary accordion player John Delafose, first hit the b... Read more

David Doucet is perhaps best known as part of the Grammy-winning band Beausoleil, but the guitarist’s distinctive stylings - a hybrid of folk-style fingerpicking and bluegrass flatpicking – combined with his deep knowledge of folk music and confident voicings, set him apart... Read more