List of festivals in Louisiana

This is a list of festivals in Louisiana, grouped by theme.

Arts and crafts festivals

• Angola Prison Rodeo & Arts and Crafts Festival — Angola
• Antique Festival — Denham Springs
• Cultural Crossroads — Minden
• Dirty Linen Night — New Orleans
• Fall Festival in Antique Village — Denham Springs
• Hot air balloon festival Championship — Baton Rouge
• Louisiana Book Festival — Baton Rouge
• Louisiana Tournoi — Ville Platte
• Melrose Arts & Crafts Festival — Natchitoches
• NCLAC Holiday Arts Tour — Ruston
• Nicholls State University Jubilee — Thibodaux
• Red River Revel — Shreveport
• Shakespeare Festival — New Orleans
• Sippin' in Seer Sucker — New Orleans
• Spring Arts Festival — Minden
• Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival — New Orleans
• Three Rivers Art Festival — Covington
• White Linen Night — New Orleans
• Gumbo Gala: Food, Art & Music — Shreveport, Louisiana

Community festivals and celebrations

• Baker Buffalo Festival — Baker, Louisiana
• Baton Rouge Fest For All Festival — Baton Rouge
• ChristFest Community Festival — Deville, Louisiana

Food, harvest and wild game festivals

• Alligator Festival — Luling, Louisiana
• Andouille Festival — Laplace
• Bayou Lacombe Crab Festival — Lacombe
• Blues and BBQ Challenge Festival — Hammond
• Boudin Cook-Off — Lafayette[1]
• Bucktown Seafood Festival — Bucktown, Louisiana [2]
• Cajun Hot Sauce Festival — New Iberia
• Catfish Festival — Des Allemands, Louisiana
• Catfish Festival
• Cattle Festival (Abbeville)
• Chef Soiree — Covington[3]
• Cochon de Lait Festival — Mansura
• Cracklin Festival — Port Barre
• Crawfish Festival — Breaux Bridge
• Crawfish Étouffée Cook-off Festival — Eunice
• Duck Festival — Gueydan
• Etouffee Festival — Arnaudville [4]
• Franklin Parish Catfish Festival — Winnsboro
• French Food Festival — Larose, Louisiana
• Frog Festival — Rayne
• Fur and Wildlife Festival — Cameron
• Great Gator Race — New Iberia LA
• International Rice Festival — Crowley, Louisiana
• Jambalaya Festival — Gonzales
• Lecompte Pie Festival — Lecompte
• Louisiana Cattle Festival — Abbeville
• Louisiana Cotton Festival — Ville Platte
• Louisiana Gumbo Festival — Thibodaux
• The Louisiana Swamp Stomp Festival — Thibodaux, Nicholls State University, Louisiana
• Louisiana Pecan Festival — Colfax
• Louisiana PeppernFestival — St. Martinville
• Louisiana Watermelon Festival — Farmerville
• Mirliton Festival — New Orleans
• Mudbug Madness Festival — Shreveport
• Natchitoches Meat Pie Festival — Natchitoches
• New Orleans Food & Wine Experience — New Orleans
• New Orleans Seafood Festival — New Orleans[5]
• Giant Omelette Celebration — Abbeville
• Amite Oyster Festival — Amite, Louisiana
• Ponchatoula Strawberry Festibal — Ponchatoula[6]
• Plaquemines Parish Fair & Orange Festival — Buras
• Rabbit Festival — Iowa
• Ruston Peach Festival — Ruston
• Seafood Festival — Mandeville
• Shrimp Festival — Delcambre
• Shrimp and Petroleum Festival — Morgan City
• Sorrento Boucherie Festival — Sorrento[7]
• Strawberry Festival — Ponchatoula
• Sugarcane Festival — New Iberia
• Swine Festival — Basile
• Tales of the Cocktail — New Orleans
• Tamale Fiesta — Zwolle
• Tomato Festival — Chalmette, Louisiana
• Viande Boucannee (Smoked Meat Festival) — Ville Platte
• Yambilee Festival — Opelousas
• The Taste of Louisiana Festival — Lake Charles , Louisiana

Earth and nature festivals

• Bayou Teche Bear Festival — Franklin
• Earth Fest at Audubon Zoo — New Orleans
• Earth Day Festival — Baton Rouge
• Forest Festival — Winnfield
• Louisiana Nursery Festival — Forest Hill

Film and media festivals

• Contraband Film Festival — Lake Charles
• New Orleans Media Experience Festival — New Orleans
• Outhouse Film Festival — Baton Rouge
• Ozone Film Festival — Covington
• Red Stick International Animation Festival — Baton Rouge

Sawmill festival - Patterson

Heritage and folk festivals

• Annual Germantown Festival — Minden
• Black Heritage Festival — Lake Charles
• Balfa Cajun/Creole Heritage Week — Ville Platte
• Buggy Festival — Church Point
• Baton Rouge Cajun Day Festival — Port Allen
• Celtic Nations Heritage Festival — Lake Charles
• Festivals Acadiens — Lafayette
• French Settlement Creole Festival — Baton Rouge
• Greek Festival — New Orleans
• International Acadian Festival — Plaquemine
• International Heritage Celebration Festival — Baton Rouge
• Independence Italian Festival — Independence, Louisiana
• Italian Festival — Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• Los Islenos Festival — St. Bernard
• Louisiana Folklife Festival — Monroe
• Louisiana Renaissance Festival — Hammond
• Mensaje Spanish Festival — New Orleans
• Northwestern State University Folk Festival — Natchitoches
• Oktoberfest Festival — Gonzales
• Wooden Boat Festival — Madisonville

Holiday festivals

• Baton Rouge Bonfire — Bathehe
• Baton Rouge Festival of Lights — Baton Rouge
• Christmas Under the Oaks — Sulphur
• Courir de Mardi Gras — Acadiana
• Festival of the Bonfires on the Mississippi River — Gramercy, Lutcher and Paulina
• Go 4th On The River — New Orleans
• Holiday Trail of Lights — North Louisiana
• La Grande Boucherie des Cajuns — St. Martinville
• Natchitoches Christmas Festival — Natchitoches
• NCLAC Holiday Arts Tour — Ruston
• New Orleans Mardi Gras — New Orleans
• Port Allen Bonfires on the Mississippi River — Port Allen
• Pow Wow and Trade Days Festival

Music festivals

• Ark-La-Tex Jazz & Gumbo Music Festival — Shreveport
• Bluegrass on the Bayou Festival — Baton Rouge
• Blues Week Festival — Baton Rouge
• Cajun French Music Association Festival — Lake Charles
• Cajun Music Festival — Mamou
• Cane River Zydeco Festival and Poker Run — Natchitoches
• Creole Zydeco Festival — St. Martinville
• DeltaFest — Monroe, Louisiana
• Essence Music Festival — New Orleans
• Festival International — Lafayette
• French Quarter Festival — New Orleans
• Highland Jazz & Blues Festival — Shreveport
• Gas, Food and Lodging Music Festival — Baton Rouge
• Lagniappe Dulcimer Fete Festival — Port Allen
• Le Cajun Festival Music Awards — Lafayette
• New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — New Orleans
• Satchmo Fest — New Orleans
• South Louisiana Blackpot Festival and Cookoff — Lafayette
• Strawberry Jam'n Toast To The Arts Festival — Ponchatoula
• Swamp Pop Festival — Gonzales
• Tomato Festival — Chalmette, Louisiana
• Voice of the Wetlands Festival — Houma, Louisiana
• Voodoo Experience — New Orleans
• Zydeco Festival — Opelousas

See also

• FestiGals - New Orleans
• Acadian World Congress, occasionally held in Louisiana

External links

• ARNB.ORG, Cajun and Zydeco Music Event Schedules for the World
• Louisiana festivals calendar at nola.com
• Clarence's Louisiana festivals guide at cajunradio.org
• New Orleans and Louisiana festivals
• Huli's LA Festival Calendar
• Lafayette's Own Boudin Cook-Off