Doris Leon Menard was born on April 14, 1932, in Erath, Louisiana. The only child of a Cajun farming couple, Menard learned to play the guitar as a teenager and performed at Louisiana clubs from a ...

Joel Savoy has become a central figure in the Acadian Uprising, a second wave of young revivalists coming to the forefront of Cajun music culture in the first decade of the 21st Century. Only 30 years ...