37th Annual Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival - "Emerging Artists"

37th Annual Natchitoches - NSU Folk Festival
"Emerging Artists"
July 15-16, 2016
NSU Prather Coliseum

The 2016 Festival theme, "Emerging Artists", will celebrate the many outstanding new artists keeping tradition alive in Louisiana.  This new generation of artists are today's tradition bearers, and their impressive mastery of old forms made anew is a showcase of a living cultural legacy.

The Festival will feature Cajun music by Briggs Brown and the Bayou Cajuns, Bubba Hebert and the New Morse Playboys, the Huval-Fuselier Trio, and the Sarah Jayde Combeaux, Zydeco by Lil Wayne and Same Ol' 2 Step, bluegrass with the Palmers and Catahoula Drive, Appalachian dulcimer fusion with Twang Darkly, and New Orleans jazz by Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns! Also, traditional Vietnamese lion dancers, a free rubboard workshop, a free harmonica workshop, and, of course, crafts, food, and the Louisiana Fiddle Championship
The Louisiana State Fiddle Championship takes place Saturday, July 16th, 1-4pm  in the Magale Recital Hall, housed in the CAPA Annex at 140 Central Avenue, Northwestern campus.

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https://louisianafolklife.nsula.edu/