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Events
Reservations are strongly recommended, especially during holidays & festivals. (See calendar below.)
We also have special celebrations here at the resort for Easter, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, & Halloween.
Come join us and "pass a good time"!
Easter:
Memorial Day:
4th of July:
Labor Day:
Halloween:
On-Going Events:
- Rendez Vous des Cajuns show - Eunice - Every Saturday evening, 6 PM to 7:30 PM at the Liberty Theater, Park Ave. at Third Street, adjacent to the Acadian Cultural Center.
- Fred's Lounge - Mamou - Open Saturdays only, 8 AM to 2 PM, on Sixth Street.
- Evangeline Downs Horse Racing Track - Carencro/Lafayette - (April 1 thru Labor Day)
January:
- New Year's Celebrations - Lafayette and surrounding towns
February:
- Bayou Ramble Antique Show & Sale BRASS - Opelousas, last full weekend in February
Mardi Gras In Cajun Country!
(Lafayette & surrounding parishes)
Mardi Gras is the day before Ash Wednesday, usually in February or March.
February 16, 2010
March 8, 2011
February 21, 2012
Count on many activities throughout the 2 weekends and week preceding the final "Fat Tuesday" parades and festivities.
Lafayette's Le Festival de Mardi Gras is second only to New Orleans. (Lafayette's celebrations, in contrast to those of New Orleans, are generally family-oriented and safe).
Small towns (Carencro, Church Point, Eunice, Mamou, Ville Platte, Elton, Scott) throughout Acadiana celebrate with Les Courirs des Mardi Gras, a rural Mardi Gras run based on the "beggars' feast" of medieval France.
La Grande Boucherie (BOO shar ee) - St. Martinville, Sunday before Mardi Gras
March:
- Downtown Alive! (street festival - food, live entertainment) - Lafayette, Friday evenings
- Azalea Trail - Lafayette
- Audubon Pilgrimage - St. Francisville
- World Championship Etouffee Cookoff - Eunice
- "Here's the Beef" Cook-Off - Opelousas
- LA Beef, Rice and Gravy Cook-Off - Lafayette
- Cajun Music Festival - Eunice, 2nd Sunday after Easter
April:
- Downtown Alive! - Lafayette, Friday evenings
- Cajun Music Festival - Eunice, 2nd Sunday after Easter
- Festival International de Louisiane - Lafayette, last full weekend (& W, Th, F evenings before)
- International Cajun Joke-Tellin' Contest - Opelousas
May:
- Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival - Breaux Bridge, 1st full weekend in May
- Downtown Alive! - Lafayette, Friday evenings
- St. Martin de Tours May Day - St. Martinville
- Celebration of Herbs and Gardens - Sunset
- Bunk Johnson Jazz Festival - New Iberia, mid-May
- Zydeco Extravaganza - Lafayette, Sunday before Memorial Day Cajun Heartland State Fair - Lafayette
June:
- Downtown Alive! - Lafayette, Friday evenings
- Mamou Cajun Music Festival - Mamou, Friday & Saturday of the first full weekend in June
- Church Point Buggy Festival - Church Point
July:
- Independence-Day Celebrations - Various venues, 4th of July
- Mulate's Accordion Festival - Breaux Bridge, 4th of July
- Summer Cultural Arts Series - Lafayette
August:
- Delcambre Shrimp Festival - Delcambre, 3rd weekend
- "Le Cajun" Cajun French Music Festival - Lafayette, 3rd weekend
- Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival - Plaisance/Opelousas, Saturday before Labor Day
September:
- Downtown Alive! - Lafayette, Friday evenings
- Mamou Cajun Music Festival - Mamou
- Rayne Frog Festival - Rayne
- Creole Zydeco Festival - St. Martinville, Sunday of the 1st full weekend
- Festivals Acadiens - Lafayette, 3rd full weekend
- Louisiana Sugar Cane Festival & Fair - New Iberia, last full weekend
October:
- Downtown Alive! - Lafayette, Friday evenings
- Roberts Cove Germanfest - Roberts Cove
- Mamou Zydeco and Blues Festival - Mamou, 1st Friday and Saturday
- Louisiana Cattle Festival & Fair - Abbeville
- Cajun Heritage & Music Festival - Lafayette
- Eunice Prairie Cajun Folklife Festival - Eunice, 3rd weekend
- Louisiana Cotton Festival - Ville Platte
- International Rice Festival - Crowley
- Louisiana Yambilee - Opelousas
November:
- Downtown Alive! - Lafayette, Friday evenings
- Celebration of the Giant Omelette - Abbeville, 1st Sunday
- Acadiana Culinary Classic - Lafayette, first weekend
- The Great Chili Challenge - New Iberia, 2nd Saturday
- Cracklin Festival - Port Barre
December:
- A Cajun & Creole Christmas - Lafayette & surrounding parishes, all month
- Noel Acadian au Village - Lafayette, Acadian Village, December 1st until Christmas Eve
- Les Chandelles de Noel - Lafayette, Vermillionville
- Safari of Lights (lights, activities) - Zoo of Acadiana, Broussard
- Festival of Lights - Lafayette, Oil Center, 1st Friday
- Cajun Christmas Bayou Parade Breaux Bridge - 1st full weekend Iberia Parish Christmas Trail
- Iberia Parish Area / New Iberia - month-long
- Les Lumieres du Village d'Abbeville Abbeville - Starts Friday after Thanksgiving
- St. Lucy Festival of Lights - St. Martinville, Sunday before Dec. 13
- Festival of Grand Coteau - Grand Coteau
- Heart of Louisiana Trail of Lights - Lafayette, Abbeville
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