This weekend, the fifth-annual Vieux-To-Do took over the French Quarter with its three festivals in one. The Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival, Creole Tomato Festival, and Louisiana Seafood Festival stretched from the Old U.S. Mint throughout the French Market, featuring three stages of southwest Louisiana music and lots and lots of food. All photos taken by Kim [...]
Tag Archives: Louisiana Seafood Festival
Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco, Creole Tomato, and Louisiana Seafood Festivals: Photos
June 13, 2011 – 6:53 pm
A Lot of Vieux to Do This Weekend
June 8, 2011 – 8:18 pm
For the fifth year in a row, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation has partnered with the Louisiana Seafood Promotion & Marketing Board and the New Orleans French Market to present their “three festivals in one weekend” celebration. The three festivals—the Creole Tomato Festival, the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival, and the Louisiana Seafood Festival—are intertwined [...]
Slideshow: New Orleans Cajun & Zydeco, Creole Tomato, and Seafood Festivals
June 14, 2010 – 12:57 pm
This past weekend, the French Market and the Old U.S. Mint hosted this year’s Vieux-to-Do, 3 simultaneous festivals clustered in the lower part of the French Quarter: the Cajun & Zydeco, Creole Tomato, and Louisiana Seafood Festivals. Below are photos of a Treme Brass Band second line and a stage at the Old U.S. Mint [...]
Seafood Makes A Stand
June 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
The oil spill in the Gulf cast an uncomfortable pall over Jazz Fest last month. As the spill makes landfall and expands, it threatens to cast an even greater shadow over the Louisiana Seafood Festival, a weekend-long event celebrating the fishing communities that collectively produce nearly a third of all American seafood. The event is [...]
Tri-Fest-A
June 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
Thought festival season was over? Not so fast. Three staples of Louisiana culture—the Creole tomato, seafood, and Cajun and zydeco music—will come together once again for this year’s Vieux-To-Do. The two-day event will be held on Saturday and Sunday, June 13—14, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and it will bring together three festivals: the [...]
Festival Times Three
June 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
This time last year, two new festivals joined the same weekend as the French Market Creole Tomato Festival to build the June weekend into a big event centered on the Market and Lower Decatur. This year, the Creole Tomato Festival, the Louisiana Seafood Festival and the Louisiana Cajun/Zydeco Festival take place June 13 to 15 [...]
