Stanley Dural was born in 1947 in Lafayette, La., a close-knit community where many black people express their Creole heritage by speaking French, and by playing and dancing to zydeco. This hybrid ...

Buckwheat Zydeco’s longtime manager and producer Ted Fox reflects on launching zydeco’s first major label release. “I was a senior editor [at Audio magazine] and I started getting into zydeco. Audio ...

Stanley Dural Jr., known to the world as Buckwheat Zydeco, is music’s best-selling zydeco artist. Following six Grammy nominations, the Carencro singer and accordion and organ player’s 2009 album, ...

Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr., who traveled the world as the namesake of Buckwheat Zydeco and brought Louisiana music to the dancing masses with his accordion, affable smile and improvised setlists, ...

Growing up in the 1950s in Lafayette, La., Stanley Dural Jr. was surrounded by zydeco, that fast-tempo Cajun music propelled by the accordion. His father, a close friend of zydeco king Clifton Chenier ...

Stanley Dural Jr., better known as Buckwheat, has been mixing the Creole sounds of Lafayette, La., with rock and R&B for three decades. Dural's accordion leads the way in Buckwheat Zydeco, accompanied ...

Sick of scooping out your driveway and sidewalks? Just blast a little Buckwheat Zydeco out the front door and watch the snow melt. Lafayette, La., native Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural Jr. and his band ...

The international ambassador for Louisiana roots music died early Saturday morning of lung cancer. Buckwheat Zydeco's Stanley 'Buckwheat' Dural Jr. Dies At 68 Hear Andrew Limbong's remembrance of ...

1 Full Cast Set for A BEAUTIFUL NOISE National Tour 2 Full Cast Set For North American Tour of SOME LIKE IT HOT 3 Full Cast Set For New North American Tour of DEAR EVAN HANSEN Traveling the world ...

The record features Louisiana musicians, and global stars like Lucinda Williams and The Rolling Stars, paying tribute to ...

Buckwheat Zydeco was unable to play his accordion, but that didn't stop him from leading a terrific show at the Acura Stage at Jazz Fest. Stanley "Buckwheat Zydeco" Dural, it was announced early in ...

Born Stanley Dural, Jr. (1947-2016), the artist known as Buckwheat Zydeco cut his musical teeth in the 1970s performing as an organist with zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier. Dural would spend the next ...