A new tribute album to the King of Zydeco Clifton Chenier will feature The Rolling Stones, Lucinda Williams, Taj Mahal, Steve ...

The New Orleans Jazz Museum is honoring Clifton Chenier, the undisputed king of Zydeco music, during Jazz Fest with an ...

Performers Marcia Ball, Sonny Landreth and Chenier’s son C.J. will lead a tribute to the legendary accordionist at 5:50 p.m.

The Carrier Family Celebration will take place at the Yambilee Building in Opelousas, Louisiana, April 25-27, honoring the ...

Jagger and the Stones perform on “A Tribute to the King of Zydeco,” a 14-song album that salutes the centennial of Chenier’s birth, June 25, 1925. Chenier became a Grammy Hall of Fame ...

Zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier would've turned 100 on June 25. Valcour Records founder Joel Savoy and Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin ...

Steve Earle, Taj Mahal, Jimmie Vaughan, Charley Crockett and more energize Creole classics from accordionist and pioneer Clifton Chenier, the late King of Zydeco. Chenier, who died in 1987 due to ...

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