LOUISIANA MUSIC HALL OF FAME

Baton Rouge 60’s rock band, the Greek Fountains, co-founder Casey Kelly moved to New York and got fellow Greek Fountains member Duke Bardwell a job pl

Louisiana’s own song stylist, Charlene Howard, brings a dynamic sound to the microphone. Her unique style defies categorization, but instead is a blen

The son of a New Orleans police officer, Alois Maxwell Hirt got his first trumpet at age six and by age sixteen, he was playing professionally.  Two y

Born in Tiel Ridge in Cameron Parish, Doug Kershaw (Jan. 24, 1936–) is Cajun music’s ambassador to the world, thanks to his 1969 national television d

ANOTHER 318CENTRAL.COM ARCHIVE REVISIT ... A TREAT!!! Dale Houston and Grace Broussard had known each other barely twenty-four hours when they team

Bobby Charles Guidry, like Fats Domino, Freddy Fender, Gatemouth Brown, Irma Thomas, and others, lost everything he owned to a hurricane in the fall o

Born on September 2, 1938, Jimmy Clanton entered his teen years just as white audiences were beginning to discover rhythm & blues music.  He