Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Lafayette fest (Festivals Acadiens) keeps everyone entertained
From The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Walter Mouton and the Scott Playboys inspired dancers, who discharged a dust cloud in front of the Festival Stage, while nearby the aroma of cracklins and red beans and rice rose from the Bayou Food Festival and merged in the pleasant breeze and drifted over Girard Park.
It was Saturday at Festivals Acadiens, which is three ongoing festivals at once: the Festival de Musique Acdienne, The Louisiana Crafts Fair and the Bayou Food Festival.
Paul McCasland, owner of Show and Tell Productions that had the sound responsibility at the Heritage Tent, grabbed two small speakers from his pickup truck and headed to the Louisiana Folk Roots tent, where fiddlers Kevin Wimmer and Mitch Reed were to give a fiddling workshop.
He left employee Mark Gamache at the Heritage Pavilion minding the sounds of the Lost Bayou Ramblers.
McCasland has done sound at the Heritage Pavilion for eight years, but he has worked with Festivals Acadiens since the late 1970s.
"It's not really for the money so much, we just have a good time. We like networking with all the bands," he said. "We have a good time with all the bands."
Read the article
The Advocate
Walter Mouton and the Scott Playboys inspired dancers, who discharged a dust cloud in front of the Festival Stage, while nearby the aroma of cracklins and red beans and rice rose from the Bayou Food Festival and merged in the pleasant breeze and drifted over Girard Park.
It was Saturday at Festivals Acadiens, which is three ongoing festivals at once: the Festival de Musique Acdienne, The Louisiana Crafts Fair and the Bayou Food Festival.
Paul McCasland, owner of Show and Tell Productions that had the sound responsibility at the Heritage Tent, grabbed two small speakers from his pickup truck and headed to the Louisiana Folk Roots tent, where fiddlers Kevin Wimmer and Mitch Reed were to give a fiddling workshop.
He left employee Mark Gamache at the Heritage Pavilion minding the sounds of the Lost Bayou Ramblers.
McCasland has done sound at the Heritage Pavilion for eight years, but he has worked with Festivals Acadiens since the late 1970s.
"It's not really for the money so much, we just have a good time. We like networking with all the bands," he said. "We have a good time with all the bands."
Read the article
The Advocate