August 17

E. Rodney Jones, legendary radio personality, DJ, and Bluseologist, was born on August 8, 1927 in Texarkana, Arkansas. E. Rodney Jones was a member of the Black Radio Hall of Fame and the Louisiana Bl...

Alton Rubin, known to the Zydeco Nation as Rockin' Dopsie "the Prince of Zydeco", died on August 26, 1993 in Opelousas, Louisiana of heart failure at the age of 64. He was married Alvina LeBlanc and h...

Mark Matthews, the oldest surviving Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army when he died at the age of 111, was born on August 7, 1894 in Greenville, Alabama. He was raise in Mansfield, Ohio where a...

Step Rideau & the Zydeco Outlaw's song "From Step To U" became the first Zydeco song to be sample by a major Hip Hop/Rap group. The song was sampled in the UGK's hip hop track "Swishas and Dosha" on t...

Fernest Arceneaux, lead accordionist for Fernest and the Thunders, was born on August 27, 1940 to a large sharecropping family based in Lafayette, Louisiana. He learned to play an accordion owned by h...

Soul singer Louis "Big Lou" Washington Sr was born on Monday, August 4, 1941 in Opelousas, Louisiana. He was the fourth child of Nathan Washington and Stella Moore-Washington. "Big Lou" Washington beg...

Ernest Joseph Thomas, known to the world as “Tabby Thomas”; also known as “Rockin’ Tabby Thomas,” was born on January 5, 1929 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Tabby Thomas is one of the best known blues mus...

The Zydeco Nation's own elder statesmen, Creole Musician and lead accordionist for Goldman Thibodeaux & the Lawtell Playboys was inducted into the Acadian Museum's Order of Living Legends on Saturday,...

Senator Jones, one of the most important innovators of the modern Southern Soul Sound, and who produced many Southern Soul and blues records in both New Orleans and at his “ranch” and home in the coun...

Happy Birthday to the Zydeco Lady, Lola Love!!! Best Wishes from the Zydeco Nation, Zydeco Historical & Preservation Society and the ZydecoOnline Family!!!

Alphonse “Bois Sec” Ardoin was born on November 16, 1915, at l'Anse de Prien Noir (Black Cyprian's Cove) near Bayou Duralde, Louisiana. He began playing music (on the triangle) with Amédé when he was...

James Joseph Brown, commonly referred to as "The Godfather of Soul" and "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business", died on December 25, 2006 at approximately 1:45 a.m. from congestive heart failure r...