Louisiana Crawfish Festival
Sigur Civic Center 8201 West Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, Louisiana 70043
St. Bernard Parish hosts its annual Louisiana Crawfish Festival—an event that has sustained a sense of community and generosity throughout the Chalmette community for more than half a century now.
Expect hungry festival-goers to 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. There's live music galore, arts & crafts vendors, and a carnival midway as well. All the eating takes place at the Sigur Cultural Center. Free Thursday; $20 Friday; $10 Saturday and Sunday. louisianacrawfishfestival.com.
