Experience Louisiana Festival schedule

The Experience Louisiana Festival schedule includes the following. All events are on the Louisiana State University Eunice campus.
Saturday
7 a.m. — Traditional Cajun boucherie.
9 a.m. — Savoy Music Center Jam Session, Musicians’ Village.
10 a.m. — Antique & Classic Car Show opens, Center Street;  softball: LSU Eunice v. LSU Alexandria, Lady Bengal Stadium; sausage-making demonstration, Eunice Superette Food Booth; and game of petanque, Musicians’ Village.
10:50 a.m. — Opening ceremony, Main Stage.
11 a.m.  — Festival officially opens; Jason Frey & Paul Daigle, Main Stage; food booths open, Main Grounds; Folklife Village opens, folk demonstrators; Artists’ Village opens; Craft Village opens; Walk-Through Louisiana opens; Ag Village opens, Camp Coushatta opens; Mardi Gras exhibits open, Community Education Building lobby; and National World War II Museum Exhibit opens, Community Education Building lobby.
11:15 a.m. — Film Village opens, Community Education Building, West Auditorium and festival introduction, introduce Robert Muggee
11:30 a.m. — Film: “Rosie’s In The House Tonight” by Robert Muggee, world premiere, Community Education Building West Auditorium.
Noon —  Softball, LSU Alexandria v. UL-Lafayette, Lady Bengal Stadium; and tentative, political stump speeches by Louisiana gubernatorial candidates, near Artists’ Village.
12:25 p.m. — Q&A with filmmakers in attendance, Community Education Building West Auditorium.
12:30 p.m. — Briggs Brown & Kyle Huval, Main Stage and Prayer Flags Workshop with Babette Beaullieu and Jan Gilbert, Community Education Building Auditorium.
12:45 p.m. — Film, “The Kingdom of Zydeco” by Robert Muggee, Community Education Building West Auditorium.
1 p.m. — Cajun French Music Association leads jam sessions and dance lessons, Musicians’ Village; and boudin-making demo, Eunice Superette Food Booth.
1:30 p.m. Narrative Stage: Berk Veillon, traiteur, Community Education Building.
2 p.m. — Documentary filmmaking panel discussion with Robert Mugge and Pat Mire, Community Education Building West Auditorium; Eunice Mardi Gras Association Mini Run, LSUE Campus Drive, west side of festival grounds, which ends with a narrative/discussion at the Eunice Mardi Gras Exhibit in Community Education Building lobby; and softball: LSU Eunice v. UL-Lafayette, Lady Bengal Stadium.
2:30 p.m. — Dustin Sonnier & The Wanted, Main Stage.
2:45 p.m. — Film, “New Orleans Music in Exile” by Robert Mugge, Community Education Building West Auditorium.
3 p.m. —  Baseball: LSU Eunice v. LSU Alexandria, Bengal Stadium; Franco Fun Chorale, Community Education Building Lobby; and Louisiana Transplants jam session, near Art Pieces east of Community Education Building, near Artists’ Village.
4 p.m. — Geno Delafose & French Rockin Boogie, Main Stage and Darrell Bourque, LA Poet Laureate, Community Education Building East Auditorium.
4:40 p.m. — Q&A with filmmakers in attendance and closing remarks, Community Education Building West Auditorium.
5:30 p.m. — Bayou Teche Brewery Tapping the Keg, Main Stage.
6 p.m. — Rendezvous de Cajun Radio Show, live broadcast, Main Stage, featured band, The Revelers with Barry Ancelet as host.
8 p.m.— Roddie Romero & The Hub City Allstars, Main Stage.
9:45 p.m. — Bonerama Brass Band, Main Stage.
11 p.m. — Festival closes

Sunday
8 a.m. — Trail community bike ride.
10 a.m. — Game of petanque, Musicians’ Village; and boudin- making demo, Eunice Superette Food Booth.
11 a.m. — Festival officially opens; Vermilion Express & Louisiana Purchase Bluegrass Band, Main Stage; Cooking demonstration by Chef Drake Leonards, Community Education Building Culinary Arts Room; Film Village opens with film, “No One Ever Went Hungry” by Kevin McCaffrey, foodways, followed by Q&A with filmmaker, Community Education Building West Auditorium; CFMA leads jam sessions and dance lessons, Musicians’ Village; We Weren’t Born Here, But We Got Here As Soon As We Could jam session, near Artists’ Village, led by Jim Phillips and Carl Brazell, ends at 12:30 p.m.; food booths open, Main Grounds;  Folklife Village opens — folk demonstrators; Artists’ Village opens; Craft Village opens; Walk-Through Louisiana opens; Ag Village opens; Camp Coushatta opens; Mardi Gras exhibits open, Community Education Building Lobby; and National World War II Museum exhibit opens, Community Education Building lobby.
Noon — Franco Fun Chorale, Community Education Building Lobby and Roman Catholic Latin Mass, LSUE Catholic Center, adjacent to the festival grounds.
12:30 p.m. — The Savoy Family Cajun Band, Main Stage.
12:45 p.m. — Film, “Good for What Ails You” by Glen Pitre, traiteur healing, Community Education Building West Auditorium.
1 p.m. — Cooking demo: Chef James Hamilton, Community Education Building Culinary Arts Room; and Narrative Stage, Darrell Bourque with Goldman Thibodeaux, Community Education Building East Auditorium.
2 p.m. — Film: “I Always Do My Collars First” by Conni Castille.
2:30 p.m. — The Band Courtbouillon.
2:45 p.m. — Film screening of “Coton Jaune” by Sharon Gordon Donnan and Suzanne Chaillot Breaux, folkart with brown cotton, followed by Q&A with filmmakers, Community Education Building Auditorium.
3 p.m. — Cooking demonstration: Chef Brett Baldwin, Community Education Building Culinary Arts Room.
4 p.m. — Q&A with The Band Courtbouillon