Festivals Acadiens is the collective name for a combination of festivals in Lafayette, Louisiana that pay tribute to the Cajun culture. The celebration is a cooperative of independent festivals that merged in 1977.
The oldest single component of this cooperative is the Louisiana Native and Contemporary Crafts Festival (then named the Louisiana Native Crafts Festival), first presented October 28, 1972. In 1976, CODOFIL moved its Tribute to Cajun Music to Parc Girard on the same weekend, and in 1977, the Lafayette Convention and Visitors Commission added their Bayou Food Festival. These three events combined the crafts, music and food of South Louisiana to form the basis of the Festivals Acadiens.
