The Zydeco Extravaganza Is Not a Festival. It Is a Fact.

In May 1987, the Cravins family of Opelousas started a zydeco show at the Blackham Coliseum in Lafayette. Thirty-eight years later, it is the largest one-day zydeco festival in the world. Google 'top Louisiana music festivals' and it is not on the first page. That tells you everything you need to know about whose culture gets indexed and whose gets ignored.

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