This is an early list of 2010 Cajun festivals in cajun country. Many of the festivals have not made public declarations of schedules and/or performing artists for 2010 yet, so this list will surely improve over time. If you have a festival you want listed, please provide a comment below. AUGUST Duck Festival August 26th [...]
AUGUST Duck Festival Sept 3rd-4th Location: Gueydan Info Link: http://www.duckfestival.org The Duck Festival is held yearly in the cajun town of Gueydan. The Duck festival kicks off the cajun festival season. There are alot of fun events and features at the festival including a skeet shooting contest , an outdoor cookoff , and a goose [...]
Wayne Toups may be an icon in Cajun music, but things weren’t always so easy. Long before he toured the world, performing with artists ranging from Ray Charles and Elvin Bishop to Alan Jackson and Sammy Kershaw, the musician ran afoul of his traditional brethren who didn’t like the rock and other influences he injected [...]
It is Mardi Gras season again and in this area it is a tradition that dates back to before the founding of our nation. It is also a major boast to the local economy, with 10,000 or more visitors swelling the local population for a week or more. Finding a spot at a local hotel, [...]
EUNICE, La –Tossing a live chicken in the air, then madly scrambling to catch it in a football-like huddle before sacrificing it for a communal gumbo – nothing so captures the spirit of Mardi Gras in rural Louisiana’s Cajun Country as the Courir de Mardi Gras. Every year on Mardi Gras Day (Feb. 24 this [...]
With Lent quickly approaching in heavily-Catholic Cajun country, a mainstay of the traditional 40-day diet may be difficult to find: crawfish. Production of pond crawfish so far this year is about half of what it was a year ago. “I’ve been in the business for 20 years. This is the worst I’ve ever seen it,” [...]
Saturday, February 14. 2009 Carnivale de Rio Parade 6:30 pm FREE Friday Night Parade Friday, February 20, 2009 6:30 pm FREE Saturday Parades Children’s Mardi Gras Parade Saturday, February 21, 2009 12:30 pm FREE Bonaparte Parade 6:30 pm FREE Monday Parade Queen’s Parade Monday, February 23, 2009 6PM FREE Tuesday Mardi Gras February 24, 2009 [...]
Uptown/ French Quarter and Mid City Date Time Parade Saturday, Feb. 7   6:30 p.m.   Krewe du Vieux Friday, Feb. 13   6 p.m.    Oshun Friday, Feb. 13   7 p.m.   Pygmalion Saturday, Feb. 14   2 p.m.   Pontchartrain Saturday, Feb. 14   6 p.m.   Sparta Saturday, Feb. 14   6:45 p.m.   Pegasus Sunday, Feb. 15   Noon   Carrollton Sunday, Feb [...]
Parade floats are being built, costumes are being fitted and krewes are practicing. Let the good times roll! It’s almost time for Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Mardi Gras – Fat Tuesday – is Feb. 24 this year, and you can find a schedule of the parades leading up to the big day at the [...]
It’s almost time for Mardi Gras parades and that means Lafayette Consolidated Government will roll out the barricades next week. All Lafayette Mardi Gras parades follow the same route – starting at Pontiac Point (Simcoe, Surrey and Jefferson streets) and ending at Cajun Field. The entire route is lined with barricades to hold back crowds [...]