Big Festival Research Paper

In collaboration these three separate events and festivals all together as they developed separately have now developed in to the big festival itself Festival Acadiens et Créole (“Festival Acadiens”). These events allowed for the festival to grow into something that celebrates all the aspects of the Cajun Créole culture. Rather than it just being a smaller event broken up into a day things it came together to a five-day event. More non-local people are more likely to come in for a festival that is more than just a couple hours one day because they are able to turn it into a vacation. Each day the festival has different activates to participate in such as concerts from different artist, a French mass, and arts and crafts for kids also to do all of these different options are able to come into play from the joint of the three festivals. Another …show more content…
This year Downtown Alive joined in the Festival Acadiens et Créole collaborating in the fun with an opening concert on the Friday of the first day of the festival. With all of these other cultural aspects joining in and collaborating together Festival Acadiens has grown and will continue to grow through these such things.
While the tourists who come in to celebrate and share in the Cajun culture and all of the different smaller events developing together allow for the Festival Acadiens to grow and thrive, there is still another factor that contributes to the growth which would be the food, music, and crafts that are actually present at the festival. During the festival many different Cajun cuisine dishes are present. One example is the event that is about boudin and is the official cutting of boudin it took place on one of the first days of the festival. Many local restaurants catered their food setting up tents to have their foods present. These local restaurants bring dishes such as Beignets, Crawfish Etouffée, Jambalaya, Fried Frog Legs, and many more