SHOP TIL YOU DROP:Downtown shops and restaurants will be open late during First Friday Sip & Shop. (Submitted Photo) THOMASVILLE- The City of Thomasville is hosting its next First Friday Sip & Shop on ...

Song lyrics, vinyl records and decorated jackets hang from the walls as you enter the Louisiana Swamp Pop museum in Ville Platte. The tunes of some of the genre's biggest stars play in the background ...

The 18th Annual Price LeBlanc Toyota and Nissan Swamp Pop Music Festival is Friday and Saturday at the Lamar Dixon Expo Center’s air-conditioned Trademart building in Gonzales. The festival, which ...

Mention swamp pop and some may think you’re talking about a soft drink. But decades before it became a name for a soda, swamp pop was a music genre born in south Louisiana, just like its cousins Cajun ...

At one point in the free-wheeling music documentary “Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted,” the eccentric 82-year-old musician is asked to describe his philosophy on life. “Just be cool, you know?,” Swamp ...

Walter Parks has played his guitar on stages all around the world, but his musical roots go back to public schools in Jacksonville. Parks, who teams up with blues guitarist Guy Davis for a show ...

Here’s a fun idea for a record: Take a veteran singer who also happens to be a lovable goofball with a dirty streak and leave him alone in a room with modern technology. There are reasons to be ...

Swamp People, now in its fourth season on the History Channel, follows the wacky adventures of the modern day Landry family and their acquaintances as they travel the southern bayous in search of ...

On his new album, Sorry You Couldn't Make It, Swamp Dogg leans into country music. It's not all that unexpected for someone who has been making music and reinventing himself for over 65 years. Swamp ...

Local folk and roots-music collective Swamp Sistas took over the Orlando Fringe Festival Lawn this weekend to hold their big La La event for an 11th year. The phalanx of musicians played their hearts ...