Festivals Acadiens is the collective name for a combination of festivals in Lafayette, Louisiana that pay tribute to the Cajun culture. Lafayette is a City in and the Parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the Vermilion River. Cajuns ('keʒən les Cadiens are an Ethnic group mainly living in Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles and peoples of other The celebration is a cooperative of independent festivals that merged in 1977.
The oldest single component of this cooperative is the Louisiana Native and Contemporary Crafts Festival (then named the Louisiana Native Crafts Festival), first presented October 28, 1972. Events 306 - Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor. 312 - Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In 1976, CODOFIL moved its Tribute to Cajun Music to Parc Girard on the same weekend, and in 1977, the Lafayette Convention and Visitors Commission added their Bayou Food Festival. The Council for the Development of French in Louisiana or CODOFIL — known in French as le Conseil pour le développement du français en Louisiane and These three events combined the crafts, music and food of South Louisiana to form the basis of the Festivals Acadiens.