In 2008, anthropologist Becky Schexnayder was inspired to interview Lafayette swamp blues musician Carol Fran. Twelve years later, the two women have built a close friendship and Schexnayder is ...

Renowned swamp blues vocalist, pianist, and songwriter Carol Fran, best known for a string of single releases in the 1950s and ’60s, died on September 1 in Lafayette from post-COVID complications. She ...

Carol Fran, the irrepressible rhythm-and-blues and swamp-blues singer, pianist and songwriter, died Wednesday at Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center. She was 87. “My sister had a way of touching ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) Music artists from here in Acadiana all the way to their brothers and sisters in Europe are mourning the loss of a Louisiana music legend. She’s known as the lady who sang the ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Blue Monday Mission was created with the goal of providing care to retired musicians in the community. On Friday, Oct. 29, Blue Monday will be holding an honorary concert. The ...

This season has been a bountiful one for Louisiana blues legend Carol Fran. Next month she’ll receive a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts; but her hometown of ...

It was a slice of Louisiana music history come to life when John Broven, author of "Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers" (University of Illinois Press, $49.50) ...