Last year, Festival Acadiens developed its own board and became its own nonprofit organization. This year, the group has changed its names to Festivals Acadiens et Créoles.
Since the late '70s, the musical event that's taken place every early fall in Girard Park has generally been referred to as Festival Acadiens, but the musical performances are actually just one aspect of the festival.
The Cajun and Creole Music Festival component presents the best contemporary bands in both genres, with an annual theme that focuses on various aspects of the history and development of the music. The festival features two major stages, the Festival Stage and the Heritage Stage, along with a workshop area sponsored by Louisiana Folk Roots, and new this year, a dance hall stage, complete with a wooden dance floor.
The Bayou Food Festival component features dishes from a wide range of South Louisiana restaurants and caterers, representing traditional and contemporary Cajun and Creole cuisine.
The Louisiana Crafts Fair hosted by The Louisiana Crafts Guild features numerous traditional art & craft demonstrations, a children's "hands on" make-n-take area, and an impressive array of some of the finest arts and crafts being produced in the state today.
In rendering his ruling, District Judge John Trahan all but called the real estate developer a liar for inconsistencies in his accounts of what prompted him to punch a school teacher unconscious.
Frank’s Casing Crew, now doing business as Frank’s International, will make its final appearance on ABiz’s list of the Top 50 Privately Held Companies in Acadiana this year, and once again it will likely be at the top with more than $1 billion in annual revenues. The 75-year-old company specializing in tubular fabrication and installation services to the oil and gas industry plans to offer shares of its stock to the public for the first time.
The defeat, or rather highjacking of House Bill 420 in the final days of this year's Legislative Session, say Reps. Vincent Pierre and Terry Landry, is the result of the propaganda spread by one unidentified local media outlet and an unnamed former state Representative, but nothing to do with the original legislation's lack of checks, balances or details.
City-Parish Council Chairman Brandon Shelvin heaped steady doses of condescending ire on a Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana executive while failing to reveal his financial ties to a BC/BS rival.
Abbeville native David Primeaux was a popular professor until his death late last year, and while he was successful at camouflaging a dark past, he couldn’t outlive it.
Tehmi Chassion’s failure to recuse himself in the school board’s selection of a group health benefits provider raises ‘serious questions’ on whether he violated state ethics law.
He’s a singer. A songwriter. A piano man. A family man. He’s even got his own Wikipedia entry. He’s David Egan. And he knows ancient secrets about the monolithic stones of Stonehenge that he’s not willing to share.
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