The autobiographical Made in Louisiana tells the evolutionary journey of how Marc Savoy, a farmer’s son and chemical engineering graduate, became the world’s foremost builder of the premier Cajun ...

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 ...

HARMONY bridges the art forms of music and craft, celebrating the joy of music and the creation of handcrafted instruments. Featuring accordion maker Marc Savoy and the Savoy family, bow maker Susan ...

Marc Savoy is a Louisiana legend not only in Eunice but around the world. He has dedicated his life to preserving the Cajun culture through making instruments, holding jam sessions and maintaining a ...

When accordionist Marc Savoy comes to town, he stays with Chris Strachwitz in his quiet Berkeley hills home. They've known each other about 45 years. Strachwitz was hunting authentic Cajun music in ...

Marc Savoy of Eunice is a pioneer accordion builder. Savoy’s mastery of the instrument is world renowned. His complex playing style is worshiped by many of today’s Cajun players. A tall man with a ...

As spectators gathered Friday night for the start of Festivals Acadiens et Créoles in Lafayette, a sense of anticipation filled the air. Festivalgoers lined up on the lawn of Scène Ma Louisiane, the ...

Sarah Savoy is living proof — you can take the girl out of Eunice, but you can’t take Eunice out of the girl. Savoy spent five years in Russia where a frigid wind whistled through her old apartment ...

Call Marc Savoy a dreamer. Call him lucky or romantic or stubborn or a man captivated by the past. Call him anything you want, but make sure you include the term Cajun and give him credit for playing ...

Musicians — who depend on live audiences as much as they do — have been especially hard hit by the pandemic. Perhaps nowhere has this been felt more acutely than in South Louisiana, where music lies ...

After Ann Allen heard Cajun music, her love for the French language entwined with a passion for the traditional music of southwestern Louisiana. That dual fascination bloomed further during the ...