Love Cajun and Creole music? Festivals Acadiens et Créoles returns in March to Girard Park
The world's largest free Cajun and Creole music festival returns to Lafayette this spring.
Festivals Acadiens et Créoles will be hosting two festivals in 2022 with the theme "The Great Return" or "Le Grande Retour". The first festival will take place March 18 through 20 at Girard Park.
The weekend will be filled with South Louisiana culture, cuisine, music, crafts and workshops. The Tour des Attakapas race will also return.
“In 2021, when we felt it best to postpone our event for health and safety reasons, we decided to hold the makeup in March 2022, in part to honor our own roots,” says Festivals founder Barry Ancelet in a news release.
“Festivals Acadiens et Créoles was born in March of 1974 as a special concert sponsored by CODOFIL and held in Blackham Coliseum. We are now, of course, a larger, more complex outdoor affair, filling Lafayette's Girard Park with a wide range of Cajun and Creole music, dance, cuisine, crafts and visual arts. But the spirit of that first self-celebration is still what guides us every year as we prepare and present our annual event.”
The musical line up, poster and pin will be unveiled next month. If you are interested in volunteering or becoming a Festival Friend forms can be found at festivalsacadiens.com.
This article originally appeared on Lafayette Daily Advertiser: Festivals Acadiens et Créoles returns to Girard park March
