NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Three of the Grammy nominations recently announced are for music recorded during this year’s New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Michael Doucet garnered one of the nominations for Best Zydeco/Cajun Music Album for his work, “Live at the 2008 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival,” recorded with his band, BeauSoleil. Also [...]

Stir together butter, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, pepper, hot sauce, garlic and salt. Pour half the mixture into a large heatproof dish. Layer half the shrimp and half the lemon slices in the dish; then form a second layer with the remaining shrimp and lemon slices, and pour remaining sauce into the dish. Bake, uncovered, [...]

If Louisiana-Lafayette’s football team goes to a bowl game this season, it won’t be in New Orleans. That’s what Sun Belt commissioner Wright Waters said during the league’s weekly teleconference call. According to the NCAA postseason football handbook, conferences are required to fill its contracted bowl slots with seven-win teams before six-win teams. The New [...]

The leader of the Hackberry Ramblers for more than six decades, Luderin Darbone was a fine fiddle player and, more importantly, one of the great innovators in Cajun music. Today, both the music and the cuisine of the Cajuns of Louisiana are popular around the world but this wasn’t always the case. Descended from French [...]