{"id":1957000,"date":"2025-08-13T00:08:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1957000"},"modified":"2025-08-13T00:08:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:08:04","slug":"opelousas-museum-hosts-new-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/opelousas-museum-hosts-new-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Opelousas museum hosts new exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tPosted: <time datetime=\"2025-08-12T14:56:36-05:00\">Aug 12, 2025 \/ 02:56 PM CDT<\/time>\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: <time datetime=\"2025-08-12T14:56:37-05:00\">Aug 12, 2025 \/ 02:56 PM CDT<\/time>\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>OPELOUSAS, La. (<strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/klfy.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KLFY<\/a><\/strong>) \u2014 The Opelousas Museum unveiled a Zydeco exhibit on Friday, August 8, showcasing the vibrant culture and history of Zydeco music.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit features the work of photographer Rita Colligan Manuel, who has spent years collecting memories, stories and pictures of Zydeco musicians in their element.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBest shots. The ones that meant a whole lot to me had a story behind it that I would show in the showing and of the originators of Southwest Louisiana Zydeco,\u201d said Manuel.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel\u2019s photographs serve as a tribute to both past and present Zydeco culture, capturing legendary musicians who have shaped the genre.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit includes images of notable figures such as Herbie Gallery and Paul Scott.<\/p>\n<p>The Zydeco exhibit at the Opelousas Museum offers a unique glimpse into the cultural heritage of Southwest Louisiana, celebrating the musicians who have contributed to this lively musical tradition.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><em><em>All facts in this report were gathered by journalists employed by KLFY. Artificial intelligence tools were used to reformat from a broadcast script into a news article for our website. This report was edited and fact-checked by KLFY <\/em><em>staff before being published.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Latest news <\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.klfy.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted: Aug 12, 2025 \/ 02:56 PM CDT Updated: Aug 12, 2025 \/ 02:56 PM CDT OPELOUSAS, La. (KLFY) \u2014 The Opelousas Museum unveiled a Zydeco exhibit on Friday, August 8, showcasing the vibrant culture and history of Zydeco music. The exhibit features the work of photographer Rita Colligan Manuel, who has spent years collecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1957001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[343660,343661],"class_list":["post-1957000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-the-opelousas-museum-has-unveiled-a-zydeco-exhibit-featuring-the-work-of-photographer-rita-colligan-manuel","tag-which-celebrates-the-vibrant-culture-and-history-of-zydeco-music-and-its-legendary-musicians"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Opelousas-museum-hosts-new-exhibit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1957001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}