Side Trips from New Orleans
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1. Blue Moon Saloon
This cottage doesn't look like much from the street, but after you pay your cover at the garden gate, you'll soon find yourself on a large covered deck packed with a young crowd dancing to the hottest local Cajun, zydeco, and roots music acts. Check their calendar online for upcoming shows.
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2. La Poussière
This ancient Cajun honky-tonk has live music on Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons. The bar is open with beers, wine, and cocktails, and the dance floor is always full.
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3. Downtown Alive!
For nearly 40 years, on Friday evenings from mid-March through June and from September through November, dancing crowds converge on downtown Lafayette, where bands play an open-air stage. A happy hour starts at 5 pm, there are local food vendors throughout the evening, and there's even a Kids Zone full of family-friendly activities.
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4. El Sido's Zydeco & Blues Club
This family-run zydeco club hosts music on Friday and Saturday nights. Sid Williams manages the club, and his brother's band, Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas, perform frequently—as does Nathan's son's band, Lil Nathan and the Zydeco Big Timers.
1523 N. St. Antoine St., Lafayette, Louisiana, 70501, USA337-235–0647 -
5. Festival International de Louisiane
Taking place on the last weekend of April, this free multi-day Lafayette music festival is a worthy alternative to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. A regional favorite, it fills the streets with some of the best entertainers, artisans, and chefs from French-speaking nations and communities.
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6. Festivals Acadiens et Creoles
This huge music-and-food fest—which kicks off with the official "Cutting of the Boudin"—is held mid-October in Girard Park. Admission's free and the food's outstanding, but the music is the best thing about it all.
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7. Mardi Gras
The biggest bash in this neck of the woods is in February or March (depending on when Lent occurs). About a dozen parades take to the streets over a couple of weeks, culminating on "Fat Tuesday," and a festive atmosphere fills the city.
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8. Randol's
This good Cajun restaurant is also a salle de danse, with music and dancing seven nights a week.
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9. Rendez-Vous des Cajuns
In addition to showcasing the best Cajun and zydeco bands, this two-hour variety program presents local comedians and storytellers and even a "Living Recipe Corner." The show, mostly in French, has been dubbed the "Cajun Grand Ole Opry"; it's held every Saturday at 6 pm in a 1924 movie house and is broadcast on local radio and TV.
200 Park Ave., Eunice, Louisiana, 70535, USA337-457–7389Nightlife Details
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10. Smiley's Bon Ami
Wilbert "Smiley" Menard operates this popular 1950s-style dance hall. On Sunday afternoons from 2 to 6 pm, an older crowd fills the dance floor, gliding to a live band in the way that only the elder generation of Cajun dancers seems to have mastered.
2206 Veterans Memorial Dr., Erath, Louisiana, 70533, USA337-937–4591
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