Fête Dix

A festival featuring French and Cajun food, music and art in New Orléans

Saturday March, 21 from 10:30 a.m. until 6:30 p.m.

New Orleans’ French immersion school, 821 General Pershing Street, New Orleans

Admission is free

Sponsored by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation.

Highlights: Bands including Feufollet, 101 Runners, Gravity A and VaVaVoom; and food from Herbsaint, Cochon and St. James Cheese Company.

Before the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, even before French Quarter Festival, there’s Fête Française, a unique one-day festival celebrating the French heritage and food of New Orleans. The festival is becoming a staple of the Spring festival season, with thousands flocking each year to eat authentic moules et frites and hear French and Cajun music.

For the first time, the festival will feature two simultaneous stages of music. The headlining act will be Feufollet, a young Cajun band that are considered the present and future of Cajun music. Band members are products of French immersion schools.

Nick Spitzer of the “American Roots” radio show said this about the band: "Beyond their growing musical virtuosity, what sets Feufollet apart from other young bands is this ability to speak—and especially sing—in Cajun French. Their mastery of the language along with the music has enabled them not only to understand songs from oral tradition, but has opened up the creative possibility of writing new material—all with a beguiling mix of authoritative voice and youthful passion, seriousness of purpose and artistic risktaking."

Other performers will include Gravity A, VaVaVoom, 101 Runners with Big Chief Monk Boudreaux of the Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indian Tribe, Hazel and the Delta Ramblers and Zulu Connection. Food from Herbsaint and Cochon, James Beard Foundation 

Award-winning chef Donald Link’s restaurants, will be available, as will French pastries, cheese and wine. The Fête marketplace, silent auction, and family-friendly games and activities round out this year’s festival. 

Moreover, Ecole Bilingue de la Nouvelle Orleans is honored to welcome His Excellency Pierre Vimont Ambassador of France to the United States in Washington and His Honorable, Olivier Brochenin, Consul General of France in Louisiana as distinguished guests.

For more information: Contact Ecole Bilingue, 504-896-4500.
Media inquiries: Contact Kathryn LeMieux, kklemieux@cox.net, 504-837-0128; 504-289-3118