Louisiana Renaissance Festival
The best festival in history is back on the Northshore!
Louisiana Renaissance Grounds 46468 River Road, Hammond, Louisiana 70401
Karen Hoyt
The Louisiana Renaissance Festival is upon us! Bring your falcon and step back in time every weekend through December 8 to party like it's 1499.
Each autumn the festival gathers more than six hundred artists, entertainers, and educational demonstrators, converting the ten-acre compound into a sixteenth-century English "Village of Albright" that features a Queen's Arms Pavilion, Village Common, Blacksmiths Way, and Piper's Pub.
Festival-goers enter the turkey-leg-waving, mead-guzzling, knight-and-peasant-infested Renaissance village to experience period shows, music, games, food and more. With more than fifty shows on a dozen stages, different themes each weekend, and one hundred booths featuring arts, crafts, and demonstrations, it's a jousting good time at RenFest, as it's affectionately known.
Too many special events and highlights to list here, so be sure to visit the website. At the gate, $30 per day for adults; $15 for children ages 6–12; free for children younger than 6. Weekend camping options. 9:45 am–5 pm Saturdays and Sundays, rain or shine at the Louisiana Renaissance Grounds. larf2023.org.