The Experience Louisiana Festival is returning for a fourth year at the LSUE Campus with a couple of major changes.
The festival is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 20. For the first three years of the festival the event was held Saturday and Sunday.
This year’s Saturday-only event will be focused around the Acadian Center. Previously, the festival was held by the Community Education Building.
Much of the previous festival site is being convered into a soccer field.
Dwight Jodon, one of the sponsoring Rotary Club organizers, said, “It is almost like a first-year festival because of the reformat.”
The second and third year of the festival tweaked on the first year.
“Now the whole thing has moved to the other side of the campus,” he said.
The festival layout should prove to be a more intimate setting than in previous years, which had acres of space.
“As we walked at the new location, it is beautiful,” Jodon said, “It is absolutely beautiful with the oak trees and all of the grounds around the Acadian Center,” he said.
People will be closer to all of the events, he said.
“One of the biggest things is once you leave your car ... you can almost do the whole festival on hard surface,” he said.
Many of the same features are planned for the festival They include car-truck show, film village, folklife, food vendors and art village.
Returning this year is the opportunity to watch an LSUE baseball game. LSUE is scheduled to play McNeese at 1 p.m. and LSU Alexandria at 4 p.m.
Scheduled bands are:
11:30 a.m. CFMA Young Musicians;
1:30a.m. Geno Delafose & French Rockin Boogie; and
3:30 p.m. The Savoy Family Band.
Parking will be $5. Admission to the festival is free.
