Sunday’s Experience Louisiana Festival schedule

Harry Lafleur, left, and Marc Savoy participate in the Savoy Music Center Jam Session Saturday morning at the Experience Louisiana Festival. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

The following is today’s schedule for the Experience Louisiana Festival to be held on the Louisiana State University campus. 
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

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