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Music Brings Us Together: The Nous Foundation’s Louisiana French Cajun and Creole music project

March 26, 2024 by: Steve Hochman

It’s been a while since the Library of Congress has added new recordings of Cajun and Creole music to its permanent archives.“The last major recordings of Louisiana French music were done in the 1960s,” says Scott Tilton, executive director of the Nous Foundation, a New Orleans-based organization dedicated to preserving and promoting French and Creole language and culture. “And those were wonderful musicians, but it was...

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