Louisiana Festivals and County Fairs are listed below! You will find all types of fairs and festivals in Louisiana including events in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, LA & more. Find the Mardis Gras, New Orleans Jazz Festival, Louisiana State Fair schedule, County fair dates, plus many more. Concession equipment & trailers are found Here
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Hot Heads Chili Cookoff
Ruston, Louisiana Festival - January Description: A CASI sanctioned Hot Heads Chili Cookoff. Two days, two cookoffs. Friday's cookoff is an "OPEN" cookoff. You can use any meat except exotic meats. Saturday's cookoff is a "Texas Red" chili with chili ground only. There will be a $30,000 50/50 raffle. The grand prize is $10,000. There are numerous other prizes also. There will be arts & crafts, food, music, and more. Full details and applications are on our webpage.
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February Louisiana Festivals
Mardis Gras
New Orleans, Louisiana - February Mardis Gras
April Louisiana Festivals
Louisiana Strawberry Festival
Ponchatoula, Louisiana - April Description: Start your visit to the Louisiana Strawberry Festival by watching one of South Louisiana's largest festival parades. Enjoy top named musical entertainment, great festival rides, queen/king pageant, baking contest, and games. There's over 50 food booths with all your favorites: strawberry pastries, seafood gumbo, Italian sausage, onion mums, funnel cakes, fried alligator, and many more.
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
New Orleans, Louisiana - April Description: The New Orleans Jazz Festival, a/k/a Jazz Fest, is a 10-day cultural feast in which thousands of musicians, cooks and craftspeople welcome 400,000 visitors each year. Festival organizers have assembled the deepest overall mix of rhythm and blues, rock, jazz, country, blues, gospel, world beat, and more in the 39-year history of the event. The Louisiana Heritage Fair showcases unforgettable music on multiple stages, delicious Louisiana cuisine in two large food areas, and craft artisans from the region and around the world demonstrating and selling their work.
Louisiana Crawfish Festival
Breaux Bridge, Louisiana - May Description: The Breaux Bridge Louisiana Crawfish Festival was recently named a top 10 food festival by USA Today. The Louisiana festival features a local celebrity crawfish eating contest, cajun dance lessons, cooking demonstrations, cajun and zydeco dance contests, crawfish races, a crawfish etouffee cookoff, and a parade. The weekend-long festival is held in early May.
Essence Music Festival
New Orleans, Louisiana - July Description: The Essence Music Festival returns for another season and promises more musical headliners, electrifying performances, inspiring seminars, intriguing authors and fabulous New Orleans food than ever before. The “party with a purpose” draws thousands of fans to the Louisiana Superdome for three days of rousing, rocking, joyful sounds and celebration. Essence Magazine claims the Essence Festival is the largest African American focused event and musical extravaganza in the world.
Oktoberfest New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana - September Description: At the Oktoberfest New Orleans, the spirit of "Gemütlichkeit" pervades the Deutsches Haus year-round, but it is especially prominent in the early Autumn. Each year, thousands of people come to the Haus to enjoy the traditional German cuisine (everything from schnitzel to sauerkraut), dancing in the Biergarten, favorite folksongs and German beer and wine, all part of the annual Oktoberfest celebration.
October Louisiana Festivals
Gretna Heritage Festival
Gretna, Louisiana - October Description: The Gretna Heritage Festival is held in downtown Gretna, Louisiana, and features three stages featuring high profile entertainment, rides, crafts, games and more family fun. The three-day festival, sponsored by the Gretna Economic Development Association, also includes a German Beer Garden and an Italian Village. At the German Beer Garden, enjoy beers and wines from Germany as well as bratwurst, sauerkraut, hot pretzels and German apple cake. At the Italian Village, along with souvenirs, beers and wines from Italy, Italian cookies and sausages will be served as well as muffulettas, meatballs and eggplant.
Bridge City Gumbo Festival
New Orleans, Louisiana - October Description:Bridge City Gumbo Festival is held annually on the second full weekend of October. The "world famous" Gumbo is cooked daily at the festival grounds and over 2,000 gallons of both seafood and chicken/sausage gumbo is prepared for our visitors during the festival. A variety of other native Louisiana cooking such as jambalaya, New Orleans style red beans and rice with sausage as well as hamburgers, hot dogs, onion mums, homemade cakes and candies, funnel cakes and many delicious surprises will also be available from the various food vendor booths. Other activities include a king/queen pageant and a gumbo cooking contest
International Rice Festival
Crowley, Louisiana - October Description: The International Rice Festival held annually in Crowley is one of Louisiana's largest and also its oldest agricultural festival held. Activities include an annual fiddle contest, accordian contest, rice creole & cookery contest, rice eating contest, parades, 5K run/walk, poster contest, and various pageants. Enjoy great music and carnival rides, and sample the various foods from barbecue to cotton candy, and many other concessions available from the food vendors.
Louisiana State Fair
Shreveport, Louisiana - Louisiana State Fairgrounds - October Louisiana State Fair
Yellow Leaf Arts Festival
St. Francisville, Louisiana - October Description: The Yellow Leaf Arts Festival is a friendly, small town festival set in a beautiful historic setting under large oaks with unique and original artists, live music and poetry.
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November Louisiana Festivals
Louisiana Pecan Festival
Colfax, Louisiana - November Description: The Louisiana Pecan Festival is held the first full weekend in November and is held in downtown Colfax, Louisiana. Festival events include the grand parade, live music, contests, fireworks and queen's ball. Enjoy three days of fun, great food, live musical entertainment, and much more.
