POSTPONED: Crawfish Festival
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Parc Hardy 2090 Rees Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70517
Amber Laviolette
This event has been postponed to a future date TBD due to Covid-19.
Breaux Bridge’s annual crawfish festival celebrates two things near and dear to any who call the Bayou State home: crawfish and Louisiana music. Breaux Bridge was designated crawfish capital of the world in 1959—by the Louisiana State Legislature, who would know—and has held the festival since 1960. Crawfish is served in nearly every way imaginable: boiled, fried, in étouffée, in boudin, in pie… if there’s a way you like to eat it, you’re sure to find it here. The competitive can enter the crawfish-eating competition; those more comfortable as spectators can take in the celebrity crawfish-eating contest, Cajun cooking demonstrations, and a crawfish race. There’s also a carnival midway full of games and activities, Cajun dance lessons, and with a parade featuring this year’s Crawfish Royalty.
Music fans—and in Louisiana, who isn’t one?—will be thrilled by the steady supply of Cajun music, zydeco, and swamp pop provided by over thirty bands from the three stages present at the festival. All your favorite regional mainstay acts will be here, including Soul Creole, Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band, and students from the Brazos Huval School of Music, to name a few.
This year’s Crawfish Festival will be held May 1–3, 2020. Entry forms for the various contests, along with full information and event details, are available at bbcrawfest.com.
