Layne is to be a special honoree

Martel Ardoin Jr., better known as Mark Layne, is the 2025 honoree of Le Grand Hoorah. Each year’s honoree is selected to acknowledge to our region’s culture bearers and ambassadors. Layne has been a familiar voice at KVPI since 1971. He initially entered radio dreaming of playing rock ’n’ roll, not Cajun French music, but everything changed when he began broadcasting from Fred’s Loung...