Breaux Bridge – Delicious food and a wide variety of music highlighted the three-day Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival that concluded Sunday.
More than 30 bands performed over the three-day festival, which has been a staple of the Louisiana festival scene since 1960.
Well-known Cajun, Zydeco and Swamp Pop
musicians played on three stages over the course of the festival at Parc Hardy.
Among those hitting the stage were Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ Boogie, Corey Ledet Dylan Aucoin & the Judice Ramblers, Chere Elise with Steve Riley, Poisson Rouge, Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band, Wayne Toups & Zydecajun, Jamie Bergeron & the Kickin Cajuns, Amis Du Teche, Gerald Delafose & the Zydeco Gators, the Huval Family Band, Nathan Williams & the Zydeco Cha Chas, Horace Trahan & the Ossun Express, Forest Huval, Nik-L-Beer, Keke Bourque & Stone Cold Cajuns and Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys.
Crawfish
Approximately 34,000 people attended this year’s festival, with food booths serving crawfish prepared in a variety of ways along with other Cajun favorites such as favorites shrimp, crab, gumbo and red beans and rice. One booth reported boiling more than 7,500 pounds of crawfish over the three days of the festival.
A carnival midway provided rides and games, and arts and crafts vendors had booths set up with handcrafted items for sale.
Sunday’s events kicked off with a parade honoring the festival’s Crawfish Queen along with her King, Junior Royalty, and Ecrevettes.
Activities at the Breaux Bridge Heritage Tent included a crawfish eating contest, Cajun dance lessons, a Cajun cooking demonstration, crawfish races and a crawfish etouffée cook-off.
Creole and Cajun dance contests were held at the Festival Stage.
