The "dog days" of summer get pretty brutal in south Louisiana. Temperatures routinely peak in the mid & upper 90's, with heat indices over the 100 degree mark. Folks all over search for a way to cool down. Snowballs are an Acadiana favorite...
The annual celebration of the beloved (and delicious) crawfish is happening May 5-7th at Parc Hardy in Breaux Bridge as the Crawfish Festival returns for 2017.
The KICKOFF, a Lafayette High event. is coming on up on Saturday, September 24, 2016.
The KICKOFF is a fall festival to celebrate homecoming week, with booths, inflatables (there will be an 18' water slide!), bands, a DJ, food, a color bash (like a color run, without the run...
The Great Acadian Awakening Music Festival is scheduled for the first weekend in October to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the arrival of what we now call our "Cajun" ancestors from the area known today as Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
From Tracy Wirtz:
This year's Atchafalaya Basin Festival features musical performances by Nik-L Beer, Joe Douglas, Al Berard Family Band, Geno Delafose and French Rockin Boogie, Hunter Courville and Cajun Fever, Jambalaya featuring D.L. Menard, and Helen Boudreaux and Friends...
For a lot of us Mardi Gras is as natural as breathing, we know what to do, when to do it and what to wear while we are at it. Still there are always new friends that move into Acadiana everyday and we will have a lot of visitors from other states and other lands. If you are a visitor to our part of the world, welcome to God's Country. This is our home, Mardi Gras is our celebration and we LOVE sha