Music Festivals
 
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Vieux To Do

Kick off your summer in New Orleans with June's three free festivals in one called Vieux To Do:

  • Creole Tomato Festival
  • Cajun-Zydeco Music Festival
  • Louisiana Seafood Festival

French Market's Creole Tomato Festival

Swamp Fest

For over 20 years, the Creole Tomato Festival has celebrated this unique Louisiana vegetable, which adds so much to so many local recipes.

Centered around the French Market, which dates back to 1791 and is the nation's oldest city marketplace, the event features:

  • Live Music
  • Cooking Demonstrations
  • Creole Tomato Parade
  • Local Farmer's Market and Food & Beverage Booths

Cajun-Zydeco Festival

Swamp Fest
Swamp Fest

Held simultaneously with the Seafood Festival, also at the US Mint, the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival features more than 20 performances on two stages. This free music is hosted by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation.

Past festivals have featured top musicians from Acadiana and New Orleans such as Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys, Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots, Bruce Daigrepont, the Bluerunners and more.

Louisiana Seafood Festival

The Louisiana Seafood Festival takes place at the Louisiana State Museum's Old U.S. Mint. This festival celebrates Louisiana harvesting more seafood than any other state! Here's to shrimp, fish, crab, oysters and crawfish and more:

  • Cooking Demonstrations
  • Celebrity Chefs
  • Behind-the-Scenes Kitchen Tours
  • Book signings
  • World's largest Seafood Dish and crawfish boil
  • Local Craft and Arts Market
  • New Orleans Restaurant Booths featuring Seafood Dishes

For More Information

Creole Tomato Festival: (504) 522-2621 - www.frenchmarket.org
New Orleans Seafood Festival: (504) 286-8736
Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival: (504) 558-6100 - www.jazzandheritage.org

Vieux To Do
June 11-12, 2011

In New Orleans, where we love to celebrate just about anything good you can imagine, festivals are a regular occurrence. Sometimes we have so many good things going on at once we have to combine them into the same time frame. This is the case with the Vieux To Do during the second week of June.

Taking its name from the Vieux Carre, the more formal name for the French Quarter, Vieux to Do combines the following three festivals:

  • Creole Tomato Festival
  • Cajun-Zydeco Music Festival
  • Louisiana Seafood Festival

Here is a little background and info about each one:

French Market's Creole Tomato Festival

Swamp Fest

For over 20 years, the Creole Tomato Festival has celebrated this unique Louisiana vegetable, which adds so much flavor and body to so many tasty local recipes.

Centered around the French Market, which dates back to 1791 and is the nation's oldest city marketplace, the event features:

  • Live Music
  • Cooking Demonstrations
  • Creole Tomato Parade
  • Local Farmer's Market and Food & Beverage Booths

Cajun-Zydeco Festival

Swamp Fest
Swamp Fest

Held simultaneously with the Seafood Festival at the Louisiana State Museum's Old U.S. Mint, the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival features more than 20 musical performances on two stages. This series of free concerts is hosted by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation and features the indigenous music that originated in South Louisiana's Bayou Country and spread throughout the world.

This year's lineup of neatly two dozen musicians includes Grammy Award-winners Michael Doucet & Beau Soliel, Terrance Simien and Chubby Carrier, plus Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots, Bruce Daigrepont, Nathan Williams & the Zydeco Cha Chas, the Bluerunners, the Lost Bayou Ramblers and more.

Also featured at the Cajun-Zydeco Festival will be cooking demonstrations, more than a dozen food vendors and some of the finest crafts to come out of the Bayou Country. Thirty of the best artisans in the region will be selling hand-made art, jewelry, hand-carved duck decoys and other crafts.

Louisiana Seafood Festival

The Louisiana Seafood Festival also takes place at the Old U.S. Mint. This festival celebrates Louisiana harvesting more seafood than any other state! Here's to shrimp, fish, crab, oysters and crawfish and more, including:

  • Cooking Demonstrations
  • Celebrity Chefs
  • Behind-the-Scenes Kitchen Tours
  • Book signings
  • World's largest Seafood Dish and crawfish boil
  • Local Craft and Arts Market
  • New Orleans Restaurant Booths featuring Seafood Dishes

For More Information

Creole Tomato Festival: (504) 522-2621 - www.frenchmarket.org
Louisiana Seafood Festival: (504) 286-8736 - www.louisianaseafood.com
Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival: (504) 558-6100 - www.jazzandheritage.org