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French Quarter Festival is a free, annual music festival held in early April, located in the historic French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded in 1983 with the first festival held in 1984, the festival features primarily New Orleans music, such as jazz, blues, and zydeco from hundreds of local musicians, as well as food from dozens of ...
Decadence, as it is commonly known by participants, is marked by having parades, bead tossing, and having street parties and dance parties. It resembles New Orleans Mardi Gras, but Southern Decadence is sexual in tone. Decadence crowds in the Quarter typically match or exceed Mardi Gras crowds. Most events take place in or around the French ...
The second line is a tradition in parades organized by Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs (SAPCs) with brass band parades in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The "main line" or "first line" is the main section of the parade, or the members of the SAPC with the parading permit as well as the brass band. The second line consists of people who ...
The holiday of Mardi Gras is celebrated in southern Louisiana, including the city of New Orleans. Celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and through Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday (the start of lent in the Western Christian tradition). Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday, the season is known as Carnival and ...
25,000–30,000. The New Orleans Pop Festival was a rock festival held on Labor Day weekend (August 30 – September 1, 1969), two weeks after the Woodstock Festival. It was held at the Pelican International Speedway in Prairieville, Louisiana, [1] about 65 miles up the Mississippi River from New Orleans and 15 miles south of Baton Rouge.
Louisiana Fur and Wildlife Festival - Cameron. Louisiana Peach Festival - Ruston [ 2] Strawberry Festival - Pontchatoula. Washington Parish Watermelon Festival - Franklinton. Yambilee Festival - Opelousas. Boudin Festival - Scott. Sugar Cane Festival - New Iberia. Frog Festival - Rayne. Jambalaya Festival - Gonzales.