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...
In the 1920s and ’30s, Creole families from Louisiana settled in Houston’s Fifth Ward, in a neighbourhood that became known as Frenchtown — one of zydeco’s great homes in Texas.
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Red hot zydeco, Southern soul & blues — weekly episodes from the Zydeco Capital of the World.
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