I had never noticed how closely the syncopated rhythm of zydeco music echoes the rollicking stumble of horses on rough terrain. But on a fall afternoon in the piney woods of Evangeline Parish, in ...

Chere Weiss couldn't sit still the first time she heard a live zydeco band. Weiss hopes other people will get up on the dance floor — or at least sit and tap their feet — when a renowned zydeco band ...