When we first started attending New Orleans Jazz Fest back in the 80s the scene at the Fairgrounds was quite different than today. In short: you could easily navigate from stage to stage and the lines to get food were shorter than a Ramones song. Those days are long gone and five years ago we decided to attend Lafayette’s Festival International instead of New Orleans premiere fest.

We never looked back.

The folks in Lafayette (excluding the occasional shrieking harridan) could not be nicer and the Acadiana region is the only part of the US that can give New Orleans a run for its food money.

You won’t go hungry in Lafayette.