The public can enjoy a FREE FESTIVAL at Vermilionville for the 20th annual Creole Culture Celebration on Sunday, June 12, 2022 from 10AM – 5PM. We’ll celebrate with live music, cooking demonstrations, juré performances, storytelling, kids’ crafts, art, museum, and photography exhibits, Zydeco dance lessons, genealogy experts, traiteur garden tours, documentaries, and much more!
Every year, Vermilionville celebrates the cultures of Acadiana that contributed so much to our unique folklife. Come to Vermilionville June 12 for our Creole Culture Day event! On this day we recognize and honor our region’s Creole heritage. So much of our food, traditions, and music comes to our region from the Creole culture, and on this day we demonstrate and celebrate its many contributions to our contemporary folklife.
With our partners at C.R.E.O.L.E. Inc, and support from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Lafayette Consolidated Government, the Bayou Vermilion District, and the Vermilionville Living History Museum Foundation, this year’s celebration of the Creole culture and history is an event not to be missed. We’ll commemorate the fascinating Creole story in our festival area and spread through our historic village. Here is a Schedule of Events:
PERFORMANCE CENTER:
10:30 Herb Green percussion to start the day
11:00 Cedric Watson and Bijou Creole
1:00 The Richard J. Catalon Creole Heritage Award
1:30 Gospel Music Presentation by Francis Leblanc
2:00 – 5pm Wayne Singleton & Same Ol’ 2 Step
HISTORIC VILLAGE, 10 AM – 4 PM
Authors
Storytellers Billy Francis and Howard Ledet
Inventions by Creole exhibit
Performances and Poetry by Daphne Thomas and Alex Poetic-Soul Johnson
Genealogy in South Louisiana with Alex Lee
The Paintings of Revina Amos, and the Photography of Joe Walker
Traditional Open-hearth Cooking with Ivy Lemieux
Crafts for the kids
A Zydeco jam session that is open for all!
Tours of the historic Broussard home
Cooking demonstrations by Deloris Sais and LA Greedy Krystal Moses, and others
Food and beverage will be available for purchase. Admission is free.
