Cajun band Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet performed two shows as scheduled in Alaska over the weekend without the frontman on fiddle due to a very real accident that happened on April Fools' Day.

Join us for a special night of music featuring the fabulous fiddler/composer Tom Rigney & Flambeau with Michael Doucet, the great Cajun fiddler and leader of the band Beausoleil! Rigney and Doucet ...

The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band has been playing together since 1977. The band includes husband and wife Marc and Ann Savoy, on accordion and guitar respectively, and Michael Doucet of Beausoleil on ...

Michael Doucet is breaking out his fiddle to join former Louisiana Poet Laureate John Warner Smith in a first-ever collaboration of music and spoken word Thursday in Lafayette at a pop-up event from ...

Heralded by luminaries ranging from Bob Dylan (“That’s my kind of music”) to New Orleans musical icon Allen Toussaint (“BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, they play music that’s honest to the bone!”), ...

Michael Doucet, the lead musician in the Cajun band Beausoleil, underwent emergency surgery after slipping on ice and fracturing his hip while on tour in Fairbanks, Alaska. Beausoleil had finished a ...

A renowned Cajun sextet from Louisiana performed two shows in Alaska this weekend — unexpectedly, as a quintet. BeauSoleil — a two-time Grammy-winning band from Louisiana — is often known as ...

The 30-year anniversary of BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet unfortunately coincided with the devastation of a large chunk of their home state, ravaged by hurricane Katrina. So the world's foremost ...