It's hard to find a picture of Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural without an accordion strapped to his chest. The instrument - the soul of Dural's beloved zydeco music - has been his constant companion for ...

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 ...

The country’s biggest zydeco star, fresh off winning his first-ever Grammy Award, is spending Mardi Gras in Tucson. Don’t ask David Slutes how he was able to pull it off, but Buckwheat Zydeco Jr. will ...