Issue Articles
Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement Award: Floyd Soileau
Can Cajun French music survive in a new millennium? Floyd Soileau of Ville Platte, who has recorded, produced and distributed the sound for 43 years, approaches the question with hopeful […]
Kisses From Geno Delafose
On a Friday night last October, all was right with the world. Geno Delafose and French Rockin’ Boogie, had just finished raising the roof off Slim’s Y-Ki-Ki, the legendary zydeco […]
Trahan’s Music Is For Everybody
In some people’s eyes, Horace Trahan is the Great White Hope Gone Bad. At Trahan’s debut, Cajun music fans had never heard 50-year-old classics sung with such power and grace. […]
