The Swamp Pop Music Festival and Jambalaya Cook-off runs from noon to 9 p.m. Saturday at Lamar-Dixon Expo Center, Gonzales. Catch some of the state's best swamp pop bands. Cook-off proceeds benefit ...

It's the 14th anniversary celebration for the Swamp Pop Museum in Ville Platte. On Friday, music lovers from across Acadiana joined together to celebrate the significance behind the Swamp Pop Museum ...

The Swamp Pop Festival and Jambalaya Festival Association Cook-Off were held at Gonzales’ Lamar-Dixon Expo Center on Friday and Saturday. The two-day event is one of the nation’s largest fundraising ...

Jazz Fest semi-officially got underway Thursday night on Burgundy Street in Bywater. For two years now, an address near the Desire Street intersection has hosted a Jazz Fest Eve house party/crawfish ...

ROBERT, La. (AP) -- From out of the postwar swamps of south Louisiana, there arose a music all its own -- a feel-good sound known as ``swamp pop.'' A half century later, this indigenous form of early ...

Song lyrics, vinyl records and decorated jackets hang from the walls as you enter the Louisiana Swamp Pop museum in Ville Platte. The tunes of some of the genre's biggest stars play in the background ...

ROBERT, La. (AP) - From out of the postwar swamps of south Louisiana, there arose a music all its own - a feel-good sound known as "swamp pop." A half century later, this indigenous form of early ...

Tommy McLain is enjoying the attention. Ever since his new album, “I Ran Down Every Dream,” was announced in April, the 82-year-old Louisiana musician has been fielding interviews with both local and ...