Louisiana Sugarcane Festival

A celebration of the sugar industry will take over downtown New Iberia in the fourth week of September. The seventy-nine-year-old festival that launches the annual grinding season will be particularly sweet this year after a two-year hiatus due to COVID. The celebration honors the industry with a blessing of the crop, a 5K race, the naming of a King and Queen, food, Cajun music, and  the procession of several parades down Main Street. The Cyr Gates Community Center will be the site for events and competitions including a sugar-centric cooking competition, an art show, and a garden and flower display. Plus, the SugArena at the Acadiana Fairgrounds will host a 4-H livestock show, and Farm Fest will take place at Shadows on the Teche. 

Wear your dancing shoes: The Cajun and Zydeco music lineup includes LA Roxx, Wayne Singleton, Clay Cormier & The Highway Boys, Jamie Bergeron & The Kickin' Cajuns, Geno Delafose & French Rockin' Boogie, Rusty Metoyer & The Zydeco Krush, and The Bad Boys Band. Free. Find schedule and more information at hisugar.org.