Festivals and Carnivals
Louisiana is known for many festivals such as Jazz Fest, Essence Fest, and its most famous, Mardi Gras. Other popular festivals throughout the state include the Louisiana Crawfish festival, Breaux Bridge Crawfish festival, the Tickfaw Italian Festival, the Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival, Louisiana Seafood festival, Franklin Parish Catfish festival, Natchitoches Meat Pie Festival, Annual Louisiana Watermelon Festival in Farmerville, Mudbug Madness in Shreveport, Bridge City Gumbo Festival, International Rice Festival, Louisiana Cajun Food Festival, Louisiana Yambilee Festival, Jambalaya festival, shrimp festival, annual crawfish boils, and crawfish cook offs. Jambalaya festival in Gonzales.
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“This is certainly not the place for a discourse about what festivals are for. Discussions on this theme were plentiful during that phase of preparation and on the whole were fruitless. My experience is that discussion is fruitless. What sets forth and demonstrates is the sight of events in action, is living through these events and understanding them.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)