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Scott Boudin Festival
Scott, LA · Food & Drink
- When
- April 9–11, 2027
- Where
- Lions Club Road Festival Grounds · Scott · LA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
A Cajun food festival in the self proclaimed boudin capital of the world, with boudin served every way imaginable alongside carnival rides and eating contests. It has run for decades in Scott, just west of Lafayette. The 2027 dates above are approximate, based on the festival's usual second weekend of April.
The history within reach
- Scott Boudin Festivalsame spot
A Cajun food festival in the self proclaimed boudin capital of the world, with boudin served every way imaginable alongside carnival rides and eating contests.
A town of about eighty-five hundred with enough butcher shops selling pork, rice and liver sausage in a casing that the legislature declared it the boudin capital of the world.
A free festival of francophone music from around the world, in the heart of Acadiana.
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.
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..