She`d just finished up lunch the other day-a big bowl of gumbo, to be exact-when we got to talking to Queen Ida Guillory, the Grammy-winning, accordion-playing zydeco star. So although we`d called to ...

Though legendary zydeco artist Queen Ida, the first female accordionist to lead a zydeco band, won’t be appearing at The Big Squeeze, the 4th Annual Orange County Accordion Festival, her presence will ...

Comparisons are inevitable — indeed, irresistible — between Louisiana’s Cajun cuisine and its homegrown zydeco music. And no one personifies this fusion of rhapsody and recipe better than Queen Ida ...

Queen Ida performing in 1996. (www.KnowLA.org) This week, for our look back at notable fresh corn recipes in our files, we found this gem from Zydeco Queen Ida Guillory. It was published in early 1991 ...

The Monocacy Creek was transformed into the Louisiana Bayou by Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydeco Band last night as an estimated 17,000 people, according to the official Musikfest estimate, got a ...

Road food has always been one of the curses of the working musician. But when it comes to Louisiana Creole and Cajun bands, good taste and good music often go hand in hand. That’s why Grammy ...

Ida B. Wells, the pioneering Chicago journalist who walked into towns across the South that did not want her there and reported on the lynchings of Black men, has been pretty busy lately. She may have ...

The International Documentary Association (IDA) announced the nominations for the 2012 IDA Documentary Awards this morning, with “Searching For Sugar Man,” “The Queen of Versailles,” “The Invisible ...

Chicago — Ida B. Wells, the pioneering Chicago journalist who walked into towns across the South that did not want her there and reported on the lynchings of Black men, has been pretty busy lately.