How to Use zydeco in a Sentence

zydeco

noun
  • During their sons’ younger years, the Franks used to travel across states to listen to zydeco bands.
    — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Creole Stomp separates itself from zydeco groups that tend to play strictly zydeco all night long.
    — Bob Kostanczuk, Post-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2018
  • This will be your chance to strap on a button accordion or a frottoir, as the percussive metal vest washboards featured in most zydeco bands are known.
    — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 May 2017
  • This new concert series honors the great jazz, blues and zydeco musicians of Houston in free concerts taking place in three parks.
    — Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Familiar songs from the film will be used to tell the story along with original compositions fusing zydeco music and jazz.
    — Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2024
  • Bertaut inherited her parents' love of dancing and is now a zydeco teacher in the New Orleans area.
    — Melinda Morris, NOLA.com, 2 July 2017
  • Ardoin’s songs of a lost love named Joline and life as an orphan helped to lay the foundation for modern Cajun music and zydeco.
    — Herman Fuselier, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2018
  • As always, the fest will include local favorites, national icons, young up-and-comers and more artists from across the spectrum of blues, soul, rock, zydeco and beyond.
    — OregonLive.com, 26 June 2017
  • The Baltimore band plays zydeco, blues, roots, rock and reggae as part of the outdoor Concerts in the Park series.
    — Jillian S. Jarrett, Washington Post, 28 June 2017
  • Parisian French seemed at once at home and out of place in Cajun country, like the voice of Édith Piaf emanating from a zydeco club.
    — Richard Fausset, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Servers don Mardi Gras beads and deliver frozen daiquiris and hurricanes against a backdrop of zydeco music and chipper, colorful decor.
    — Malcolm Mayhew, star-telegram, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Hunter Courville & Cajun Fever performs energetic zydeco and swamp-pop anthems.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Nine contests around the state feature polka, Cajun, zydeco and conjunto accordion music.
    — Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2018
  • Players performed on drums galore, zydeco washboard and squeezebox, multi-cultural percussive instruments, brass and flutes.
    — Dylan Owens, The Know, 13 Mar. 2017
  • More than 100 performers will play blues, Cajun, zydeco, rockabilly, salsa and country tunes on seven stages.
    — April Orcutt, latimes.com, 6 May 2018
  • The agenda also includes a cooking competition, children’s activities and a zydeco dance party.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], AL.com, 22 Oct. 2017
  • All genres of accordion music are welcome, including conjunto, zydeco, Cajun, polka and more.
    — Houston Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Zydeco is the distinctive, churning and whirling African-American spin on cajun music by French-Creole speakers.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Since its inception in 1997, this festival has also featured African rhythms like soukous and zydeco from New Orleans.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Her home state isn’t one of neat lines and concrete divisions; this is the only place in the world where bluegrass, zydeco, Tejano, western swing, and Mexican rancheras all coexist and sometimes even blend.
    — Cat Cardenas, Vogue, 7 May 2026
  • Music ranges include Cajun, zydeco, Mardi Gras, Texas swing, jazz, bluegrass and Americana.
    — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2026
  • Music ranges include Cajun, zydeco, Mardi Gras, Texas swing, jazz, bluegrass and Americana.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • Messina's other specialty food items were its signature antipasto display, duck and andouille gumbo, canefield salad, a pork loin carving station, crawfish zydeco pasta and white chocolate bread pudding.
    — Elizabeth Moore, NOLA.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Crawfish, zydeco and draft beer weren’t all that was in evidence at this weekend’s 16th annual Gator by the Bay festival at Spanish Landing.
    — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 May 2017
  • Artists perform a variety of acoustic genres, including Americana, blues, zydeco, Dixieland, big band and contemporary folk.
    — Judy Peterson, The Mercury News, 19 May 2017
  • This year expect 13 stages of nonstop sound, with performances that span genres, including jazz, gospel, blues, Cajun, zydeco, R&B, rock, funk, and the countless hybrid styles born right here.
    — Ellen Carpenter, AFAR Media, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Good luck trying to distinguish their Mexican roots from the American ones amid an incredible fusion of rock, country, zydeco, folk, R&B, blues and traditional music like cumbia, boleros and norteños.
    — Jeremy Hallock, Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2020
  • In addition, Lifetime Achievement Awards will be granted to five-time Grammy-winner Taj Mahal; zydeco originator Clifton Chenier; and Louisiana Folk Roots, which celebrates the joie de vivre of Cajun and Creole cultures.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 12 Nov. 2025
  • In addition, Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented to five-time Grammy-winner Taj Mahal; zydeco originator Clifton Chenier; and Louisiana Folk Roots, which celebrates the joie de vivre of Cajun and Creole cultures.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Saturday’s all-day schedule features sets by zydeco accordion maestro Ruben Moreno, Cajun standard bearers the Riley Family Band with David Greely and Sam Broussard, and soulful accordionist/vocalist Geno Delafose, scion of a zydeco dynasty.
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026

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