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Bald Eagle Bash
Bald Eagle Bash
Fairhope, AL, Jun 2, 2012
Bald Eagle Bash
Enjoy a Taste of Weeks Bay featuring Alabama Wild Shrimp prepared by top local restaurants, with live entertainment provided by the Locust Fork Band. This is a fundraising event to support the Weeks Bay Foundation’s mission to protect the natural resources of coastal Alabama while supporting the goals and programs of the Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Tickets are $30 in advance and $35 at the gate and are available at www.BaldEagleBash.com, at BBVA Compass locations, and by calling 251-990-5004. www.BaldEagleBash.com.
Weeks Bay Reserve 11300 U.S. Hwy. 98 Fairhope, AL 36532
Flora-Bama Crawfish Festival Jambalaya Competition
2nd Annual Flora-Bama Crawfish Festival & Jambalaya Competition
Flora-Bama Crawfish Festival & Jambalaya Competition
Nothing is as unique to Cajuns & Southern Folks as eating crawfish during festival weekend. You’ll enjoy tasting crawfish hot, fresh and ready to eat! Its gonna be a weekend full of great food, good friends and the best live music along the Gulf Coast!
May 11-13, 2012 12-9 pm
Flora-Bama Lounge & Oyster Bar, 17401 Perdido Key Dr, Pensacola, FL 32507
850 492-0611
www.florabama.com
Categories: Alabama, Festivals, Florida, Seafood Tags: 32507, bar, fl, Flora-Bama, Flora-Bama Crawfish Festival, Flora-Bama Lounge, Flora-Bama Lounge & Oyster Bar, florida, Jambalaya Competition, Pensacola Florida
French Quarter Market Trio of Festivals
Three Festivals at Once in the French Quarter Market
Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival
Yes, not one, not two, but three festivals at once! No where but New Orleans! The Creole Tomato Festival, the Louisiana Seafood Festival and the Cajun-Zydeco Festival at take place on June 9 and 10 at the French Market/U.S. Mint area of the Quarter. Here’s a description of each.
Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival
June 9-10, 2012
The sixth annual Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival takes place Saturday, June 9, and Sunday, June 10, at the Old U.S. Mint in New Orleans. With two stages, a huge crafts fair and great food, the Cajun-Zydeco Fest is a dance-happy celebration of the rockin’ music of southwest Louisiana.
Two giants of zydeco – C.J. Chenier & His Red Hot Louisiana Band and Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ Boogie – will make their Cajun-Zydeco Fest debut at this year’s festival.
http://www.jazzandheritage.org/cajun-zydeco
French Market Creole Tomato Festival
June 9-10, 2012
French Market Creole Tomato Festival
A celebration of the Creole tomato, which is locally grown, this festival features cooking demonstrations by the city’s premier chefs, food booths selling dishes made with Creole tomatoes, and samplings, music and vendors selling the famous tomatoes. frenchmarket.org
Louisiana Seafood Festival
June 9-10, 2012
The Louisiana Seafood Festival celebrates the State’s extraordinary local cuisine. Starting with everything fresh from the water, famous chefs cook up shrimp, oysters, crawfish, crab and alligator.
Takes place at the US Mint – next to the French Market.
louisianaseafood.com/festival
Shrimporee Shrimp Festival
Shrimporee Shrimp Festival
Shrimporee in Aransas Pass Texas
It’s the largest shrimp festival in Texas! They’ve got boiled shrimp, fried shrimp, shrimp gumbo, grilled shrimp . . . Forrest Gump would be proud! Get your shrimp on with bushels of the tasty critters cooked in every conceivable style. In addition, there’s great Texas music with Larry Joe Taylor and Ram Herrera, the Miss Shrimporee Pageant, the Great Outhouse Race, the Men’s Sexy Leg Contest, a parade, a carnival, a Shrimp Peeling Contest, and last but certainly not least, a good ol’ fashioned White Tiger Exhibit.
June 8-10, 2012
Johnson Community Park
Aransas Pass, Tx
http://www.aransaspass.org/Shrimporee.cfm
Categories: Festivals, Seafood, Texas Tags: aransas pass, festival, gulf, gulf coast seafood, Gulf Coast States, seafood, shrimp, Shrimp Festival, Shrimporee, texas, tx
