June 11

On Sunday, June 10, 2012 Creole Musician, Goldman Thibodeaux received the Richard J. Catalon Sr. Creole Heritage Award at the 8th annual Creole Culture day at Vermilionville in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Paul "Lil Buck" Sinegal, internationally known Blues and Zydeco guitarist and singer died on Monday June 10, 2019 in Lafayette, Louisiana at the age of 75. He was given the nickname "Lil Buck" because...

Wilbert Guillory, agricultural organizer and activist, Zydeco music promoter and long time director of the Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival in Plaisance, Louisiana died on June 14, 2...

Baldemar Huerta, known to the world as Freddy Fender, was born on June 4, 1937 in San Benito, Texas. Freddy Fender was a Mexican-American, Tejano, country, and rock and roll musician, known for his wo...

Highly respected and sultry jazz and blues singer, Ms. Dakota Staton, (pronounced STAY-Ton) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 3, 1930. She began singing and dancing at the age of 7 She rece...

Crowley, Louisiana natives Bobby Jackson, age 46 (Guitarist), and Bradley Guilbeau, age 39 (Drummer), musicians with the Zydeco Band Dikki Du & the Zydeco Crew were killed in an auto accident on June...

Zydeco Musician and lead singer J.J. Caillier III of J.J. Caillier & the Zydeco Knockouts was born October 27, 1967 in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Bo Diddley’s “Pretty Thing” becomes a Top Forty hit in January 1956. One of Bo Diddley’s best-known songs, “Pretty Thing,” inspired a British band to name itself the Pretty Things.

Alton Rubin, known to the Zydeco Nation as Rockin' Dopsie "the Prince of Zydeco", was born on February 10, 1932 in Carencro, Louisiana. As a child he worked in the sugarcane and cotton fields. His fat...

Bo Diddley releases his monumental first single, “Bo Diddley” b/w “I’m a Man,” on Checkers Records on March 2, 1955. “Bo Diddley” b/w “I’m a Man,” topped the R&B chart for two weeks.

Highly respected creole fiddler Canray Fontenot was born October 23, 1918, in d l'Anse des Rougeaux, Louisiana (an unincorporated community outside Eunice, Louisiana). His family was originally from t...

Earl Rodney Jones, legendary radio personality, DJ, and Bluseologist, died on Friday, January 2, 2004 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana of lung cancer at the age of 75. E. Rodney Jones was born on August 8, 1...