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SOUTH LOUISIANA’S BLACKPOT FESTIVAL

South Louisiana is fertile ground, its swampy landscape home to everything from soulful zydeco music to mouthwatering gumbo and étouffée. Last year, our team ventured southwest to a town in the heart and soul of Cajun country for an annual festival celebrating these long-standing cultural traditions.

Since its beginning in 2005, the Blackpot Festival & Cookoff has been luring visitors to Lafayette, Louisiana, for one of autumn’s most exciting events. If you know anything about Cajun culture, you know that good food and good music go hand in hand. So it should

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