This is American Routes, Down by the Riverside, live at the New Orleans Jazz Market. Our guests this hour are the Doucet brothers. Fiddler Michael is a National Heritage Fellow, a person who years ago ...

It’s not true that angel food cake served at Friday night’s “Cajun Casual” fundraiser at the Pine Bluff Country Club was prepared with a roux, but it could have been. The event — featuring the Cajun ...

As she was teaching as at elementary school in a rural Louisiana town in 2000, former Winchester resident Anya Schoenegge Burgess never imagined she’d be nominated for a Grammy Award. A lifelong music ...

Though she continued to take violin lessons for several years, Cajun music delivered that special jolt, and she added Cajun fiddling to her repertoire at age 8. Further fanning the desire, her mother ...

A 4-year-old Amanda Shaw got the first glimpse of her future career while watching an orchestra perform on television. “When they showed the violin, it was love at first sight,” Shaw says. “I turned ...

I had lots of questions when I first met Anya Burgess almost two decades ago. Besides how to pronounce her maiden name of Schonegge, I asked, “What’s a luthier?” Burgess explained that a luthier makes ...

It's a familiar tune: Location. Location. Location. And for SOLA Violins, that familiar refrain and more is why Anya Burgess moved her business from Arnaudville to the Gordon Hotel in the heart of ...

BREAUX BRIDGE, LA (WVUE) - Their ages run from the single digits to the teens, but they are performing the music of their great grandparents. And they sing and play Cajun French tunes with the ...