Louisiana Crawfish Festival

Not ones to let the celebration of crawfish fixed-any-which-way-you-like-it remain an exclusively Acadiana event, Chalmette presents its own crawfish festival—and has since 1975. Hungry festival-goers arrive by auto, air, bus, and train to enjoy thirty thousand pounds of boiled crawfish with all the fixin's, as well as crawfish dishes such as crawfish bread, crawfish pasta, crawfish pies, crawfish rice, and crawfish jambalaya. Live music galore, arts & crafts vendors, and a midway are also provided, of course. All the eating takes place at the Sigur Cultural Center. $5 Saturday, $10 Sunday. louisianacrawfishfestival.com.

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