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 and duck calling contest. [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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,” said Scott [...]

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 King’s Parade
10 AM FREE
Independent Parade
2:00 PM FREE

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 15    1:15 p.m.     King Arthur [...]

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 New [...]

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 and protect [...]

NEW ORLEANS – Jim Belushi is heading to New Orleans this month to celebrate Mardi Gras and ride in the glitzy Orpheus parade founded in 1993 by Harry Connick Jr.
The 54-year-old Belushi will be one of several TV stars on the parade’s 35 floats, which will roll through the city Feb. 23, [...]