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Festivals Acadiens et Creoles
Lafayette, LA · Music
- When
- October 9–11, 2026
- Where
- Girard Park, 500 Girard Park Dr · Lafayette · LA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A free five-stage celebration of Cajun and Creole music, crafts, and food in Lafayette's Girard Park, running for more than 50 years as one of the region's most enduring showcases of traditional culture.
The history within reach
- Festivals Acadiens et Creolessame spot
A free five-stage celebration of Cajun and Creole music, crafts, and food in Lafayette's Girard Park, running for more than 50 years as one of the region's most enduring showcases of traditional culture..
The 1921 constitution required English-only schooling, and a generation of Cajun and Creole children were punished for speaking the only language they knew at home, made to write lines, hit, humiliated into raising English-speaking children of their own.
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