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Exciting traditional Irish and Celtic music from Ireland, USA, Scotland, Brittany, and beyond! Celtic Bayou Festival is planning an exciting line-up of music, dance, and culture for this year's festival. Performers from Ireland, Scotland, France, Texas, Alabama, Carolina, Louisiana and more will take the stage at Warehouse 535, Lafayette LA. For more information visit, https://www.celticbayoufestival.com/

Get ready for Louisiana's quirkiest tradition! The annual Pardoning of the Crawfish is coming up, where one lucky crawfish will be saved from the boiling pot! For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/LouisianaLtGov/photos/get-ready-for-louisianas-quirkiest-tradition-the-annual-pardoning-of-the-crawfis/1065596002273779/?_rdr

Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Spamalot retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and features a bevy of beautiful show girls, not to mention cows, killer rabbits, and French people. For more information, visit https://www.abbeyplayers.com/2024-2025season

Join UL Lafayette's Theater Department in their play, The Servant Of Two Masters, at Burke-Hawthorne Hall from March 13th - 16th and the 20th - 23rd. The wedding of two lovers turns into complete chaos as a really hungry servant, Arlecchino, shows up to announce the arrival of his master. For more information, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-servant-of-two-masters-tickets-1224294400509

On Sunday, March 16th, 2025, Atchafalaya Basinkeeper will host its 9th Annual Save The Basin event at Rock and Bowl in Downtown Lafayette! Come enjoy the unique Cajun-inspired artists, silent auction, raffles , live music, dancing and bowling. This all day event brings together communities around South Central Louisiana in support of the beautiful Louisiana wetlands we all cherish. The Atchafalaya Basin the most productive swamp in the world and is vitally important to Louisiana’ Cajun culture; it supports a unique ecosystem of cypress-tupelo swamps found nowhere else on the planet, provides a habitat for our fishing and crawfishing economy, and plays a significant role as a safe harbor for thousands of migratory birds as well as protecting millions of people in South Louisiana from Mississippi River floods. For more information, visit https://www.basinkeeper.org/events/2024/3/17/8th-annual-save-the-basin-event-em49l

Lafayette Travel and the Bayou Vermilion District have partnered to create the Vermilion Voyage, a three-day overnight paddle down the Bayou Vermilion launching from the Acadiana Park Nature Station to Palmetto Island State Park. Participants will have the rare opportunity to consecutively paddle just over 50 miles of the Vermilion through Lafayette and Vermilion Parishes. For more information, visit https://www.lafayettetravel.com/vermilion-voyage/

Louisiana Folk Roots offers a Summer Kids Camp which offers a fun-filled week of music, crafts, singing, and very special activities on a folklife campus. Kids Camps are open to all levels of young musicians. Just bring a guitar, a fiddle, or a 10-button diatonic accordion in the key of C, and we’ll fill the days with music classes, band labs, singing, dancing, indoor/outdoor games, crafts, cuisine, and fun. For more information, visit https://lafolkroots.org/kids-camp

The 18th annual Women’s Leadership Conference will be held in-person, bringing together students, faculty, staff, and community members to commemorate National Women’s History Month. The conference provides opportunity for personal and professional leadership development centered on the needs of women from various cultural backgrounds. Join on March 13, 2025, at the Cajundome Convention Center in Lafayette, Louisiana for a day full of educational breakout sessions, inspirational awards presentations, and empowering keynote speakers. For more information, click here.

In celebration of Black History Month, UL's Traditional Music program will be collaborating with UL's English Faculty on “Resonance and Groove: Afrofuturism in the US South,” a dynamic three-day symposium exploring Afroturist thought across southern music, literature, and folklore. Held in a number of venues across the UL campus and downtown Lafayette, most of the symposium events are free to the public with no registration required. For more information, click here.

Dr. Jennifer Hargrave, instructor of geology at UL Lafayette, joins us for Dr. Neil Shubin's public book signing and talk at the Lafayette Science Museum. The best-selling author of Your Inner Fish takes readers on an epic adventure to the North and South Poles to reveal the secrets locked in the ice about life, the cosmos, and our planet’s future. For more information about the Lafayette Science Museum's events click here.