Welcome to Lafayette

Horse Farm

 

Cajundome

- You won’t want to miss this special evening Play Day experience! Polly and Lou will be celebrating all things that glow and light up the dark as we play into the night!

Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

Susie Gottardi 337.482.0825 artmuseum@louisiana.edu

 

 

 

Couret Farms

 

 

Sugar Mill Pond Town Center

- Dolby Theatre, Hollywood and Highland Center, Los Angeles, CA. 91st annual Honoring film achievements of the previous year. Televised live on ABC, with Jimmy Kimmel scheduled to host.

 

- We want you to go see a show! The Laborde Earles Law Firm, a personal injury law firm in Lafayette, is excited to giveaway two tickets to Madea’s Farewell Play Tour at the Heymann Center on Tuesday March 12, 2019. Entries for this contest will be accepted from Feb, 25th at 8:00 a.m. until March 8th at 11:00 a.m. Please click to learn more about how to enter yourself or a loved one!

Heymann Center

David Laborde and Digger Earles law@onmyside.com

- The purpose of the Lafayette Photographic Society club is to bring people interested in photography together to help educate and inform them about how to become better photographers. A further purpose is to provide a fellowship opportunity for those of like interest. Standard meeting time is 7:00pm on the second and fourth Mondays of each month. If you are interested in learning more about your camera, please join us as a guest at one of our meetings. We have members that have been shooting for 40 years and members that just received their camera and they want to learn. We will help you learn! We hope to see you soon!

Comeaux Recreation Center

Jude Dubois 337.278.6668 jduboistlt@gmail.com

- Take a tour of University House in February and be entered for a chance to win 2 tickets to BUKU Music + Art Project and a Yeti Cooler filled with Music Festival Essentials.

University House Acadiana

337.275.3500 live@uhacadiana.com

- We want you to go see a show! The Laborde Earles Law Firm, a personal injury law firm in Lafayette, is excited to giveaway two tickets to Madea’s Farewell Play Tour at the Heymann Center on Tuesday March 12, 2019. Entries for this contest will be accepted from Feb, 25th at 8:00 a.m. until March 8th at 11:00 a.m. Please click to learn more about how to enter yourself or a loved one!

Heymann Center

David Laborde and Digger Earles law@onmyside.com

- Everyone is invited to the annual Healthy Start Community Baby Shower! This year we will have a Mardi Gras themed shower. LAISSEZ LES BONS TEMPS ROULER, even with a baby on the way!!

We will have local vendors with lots of great information, plus food, fun, games and door prizes!! No registration required. A light lunch will be provided.

Vendors include: Baby Boot Camp, Surrey St. Community Health Clinic, Ivy Sias Counseling, Faith House, RISE, Willow Charter Academy, VITA, Eckard and more!
A sneak peek of door prizes includes items from MeMaw's Gifts, Project Launch, Nurse Family Partnership, Rodan + Fields Consultant Kim St. Germain, Stacey Briolo Fitness and many more!

Very special thanks to our sponsors Healthy Blue Louisiana and Lafayette Parks and Recreation. We could not do this without them!

George Dupuis Recreation Center

Jerri Byrd Hodges 337.981.2180 jerri@acadianafamilytree.org

 

- A 1,210-pound bomb packed in a van exploded in the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 (mostly from smoke inhalation). The powerful blast left a crater 200 feet wide and several stories deep. The cost for damage to the building and disruption of business for the 360 companies with offices in the Center exceeded $591 million. Fifteen people - the fundamentalist Muslim cleric Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman and 14 of his followers were indicted for the bombing. Rahman was given a life sentence, and the others received prison terms of up to 240 years each.

 

- Moon enters Last Quarter phase at 6:27 AM, EST.

 

- We want you to go see a show! The Laborde Earles Law Firm, a personal injury law firm in Lafayette, is excited to giveaway two tickets to Madea’s Farewell Play Tour at the Heymann Center on Tuesday March 12, 2019. Entries for this contest will be accepted from Feb, 25th at 8:00 a.m. until March 8th at 11:00 a.m. Please click to learn more about how to enter yourself or a loved one!

Heymann Center

David Laborde and Digger Earles law@onmyside.com

The Begnaud House

Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

Jolie Johnson 337.482.2278

- Sharing Circle is a monthly symposium on the anthropological, sociological, psychological, and philosophical study of specific topics in various tribal/indigenous, classical polythiestic, neopagan, and intrapersonal spiritualities. Originally, Sharing Circle covered specific topics in specific religions with a presenter, akin to a workshop. Today, Sharing Circle is much more discussion based. Participants focus on one question per gathering and share their experiences and perspectives with others. The experience is both challenging and informational. Many participants state that they are asked to evaluate their beliefs logically and to entertain ideas you may not have considered before.

Main Library

- The UL-Lafayette Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Winds will present a free concert entitled “SONG AND DANCE” on Wednesday, February 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Angelle Auditorium

Dr. Jason Missal will lead the Symphonic Winds in The Solitary Dancer (Benson), Danzon (Marquez), a Shostakovich Waltz , and The Danserye (Susato).

The University Wind Ensemble, conducted by Dr. William Hochkeppel, will then perform La Fiesta Mexicana (a Mexican Folk Song Symphony by H. Owen Reed) and Suite Louisiane by James Syler. Five folk songs from different regions of Louisiana make up the new suite which UL helped commission. Ginastera’s Impetuosamente rounds out the program which is free and open to the public.

Ducrest-Gilfrey Auditorium at Angelle Hall

UL School of Music 337.482.6012 music@louisiana.edu

- We want you to go see a show! The Laborde Earles Law Firm, a personal injury law firm in Lafayette, is excited to giveaway two tickets to Madea’s Farewell Play Tour at the Heymann Center on Tuesday March 12, 2019. Entries for this contest will be accepted from Feb, 25th at 8:00 a.m. until March 8th at 11:00 a.m. Please click to learn more about how to enter yourself or a loved one!

Heymann Center

David Laborde and Digger Earles law@onmyside.com

Cajundome

- Take a tour of University House in February and be entered for a chance to win 2 tickets to BUKU Music + Art Project and a Yeti Cooler filled with Music Festival Essentials.

University House Acadiana

337.275.3500 live@uhacadiana.com

- A day to recognize chili as an American staple and to celebrate our love for a great bowl of red-- especially in the cold winter months. Annually, the last Thursday in February.

 

- We want you to go see a show! The Laborde Earles Law Firm, a personal injury law firm in Lafayette, is excited to giveaway two tickets to Madea’s Farewell Play Tour at the Heymann Center on Tuesday March 12, 2019. Entries for this contest will be accepted from Feb, 25th at 8:00 a.m. until March 8th at 11:00 a.m. Please click to learn more about how to enter yourself or a loved one!

Heymann Center

David Laborde and Digger Earles law@onmyside.com

- Cajun and Creole Porch Style Music. Every Friday Night at the Begnaud House

Begnaud House

Russo Park

Cajun Field

- On March 1, 1872, the first area in the world to be designated a national park, most of the Yellowstone is in Wyoming, with small sections in Montana and Idaho. It was established by an act of Congress.

 

- An “unofficial” National holiday is celebrated on the first Friday in March. This day honors the value and dedication of the professional salesperson as well as the hard work that they perform.

 

- It is one month of the year to take the time to recognize our country's everyday heroes who give their time to help people in need. Presidential Proclamation for Red Cross Month issued each year for March since 1943.

 

- Read Across America Day is a nationwide reading celebration that takes place annually on March 2—Dr. Seuss’s birthday (or near)! Across the country, thousands of schools, libraries, and community centers participate by bringing together kids, teens, and books, and you can too! Incorporate these guides and activities to celebrate reading with young people!

 

- We want you to go see a show! The Laborde Earles Law Firm, a personal injury law firm in Lafayette, is excited to giveaway two tickets to Madea’s Farewell Play Tour at the Heymann Center on Tuesday March 12, 2019. Entries for this contest will be accepted from Feb, 25th at 8:00 a.m. until March 8th at 11:00 a.m. Please click to learn more about how to enter yourself or a loved one!

Heymann Center

David Laborde and Digger Earles law@onmyside.com

Horse Farm

- The Inaugural Festival of Live Oaks Pageant is being held on March 2, 2019. The pageant is being held as a fundraiser for two local heart recipients and our local New Iberia Aquatics swim team & also to raise awareness about the festival.

Custom ten inch crowns and custom wraparound banners will be awarded to 13 Divisional Queens from ages birth and up. There is a group for every age girl including women, this is a pageant for all. We also have two Ambassador titles, for two contestants raising the most fund for the cause. Every participant will receive a token of appreciation. We will also have visiting queens from around the state.

New Iberia City Park Cyr Gates Community Center, 300 Parkview Drive New Iberia, LA 70563

Admission: $5.00 per guest 4 yrs. and older. All guests must pay except contestants.

Cyr Gates Community Center

Gina Prince 337.519.5815 newiberiaswims@outlook.com

- Join us, and guest speaker Allen Owings, Saturday March 2, 2019 @ 10am for a free presentation on Roses!

Allen Owings- Professor Emeritus - Horticulture, LSU AgCenter. Retired with 25 years service June 2017, and is currently senior horticulturist at Bracy’s Nursery in Amite, LA and horticulturist at Clegg’s Nursery in Baton Rouge.

Attendees will receive a gift for 20% off one rose valid through 6pm March 2!

All Seasons Home, Garden and Landscaping Showplace

Lindsey Rosenbalm 337.264.1418 lrosenbalm@buyallseasons.com

 

 

Russo Park

 

 

Cajun Field

- 47th running of "The Last Great Race on Earth"* (first run March 3, 1973). 1000 miles through Alaskan Wilderness from Anchorage to Nome, AK along the historic Iditarod Trail.

 

- We want you to go see a show! The Laborde Earles Law Firm, a personal injury law firm in Lafayette, is excited to giveaway two tickets to Madea’s Farewell Play Tour at the Heymann Center on Tuesday March 12, 2019. Entries for this contest will be accepted from Feb, 25th at 8:00 a.m. until March 8th at 11:00 a.m. Please click to learn more about how to enter yourself or a loved one!

Heymann Center

David Laborde and Digger Earles law@onmyside.com

Russo Park

Cajundome

Cajun Field

- We want you to go see a show! The Laborde Earles Law Firm, a personal injury law firm in Lafayette, is excited to giveaway two tickets to Madea’s Farewell Play Tour at the Heymann Center on Tuesday March 12, 2019. Entries for this contest will be accepted from Feb, 25th at 8:00 a.m. until March 8th at 11:00 a.m. Please click to learn more about how to enter yourself or a loved one!

Heymann Center

David Laborde and Digger Earles law@onmyside.com

- GOMP, Girls Only Mentorship Program, is accepting applications for girls interested in joining. As a nonprofit organization, joining is completely free. Applications can be requested by mail or email: girlsonlymp@gmail.com. For more information about who GOMP is, feel free to visit our website at click for details. This is also where you will be able to find out about more events sponsored by GOMP.

Any girl, age 8 and up (no age limit), can apply for registration. Although we are headquartered in Carencro, we welcome girls from all locations.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Alicia Sylve, CEO & Founder

HQ in Carencro

Alicia Sylve GirlsOnlyMP@gmail.com

 

Cajun Field

 

- We want you to go see a show! The Laborde Earles Law Firm, a personal injury law firm in Lafayette, is excited to giveaway two tickets to Madea’s Farewell Play Tour at the Heymann Center on Tuesday March 12, 2019. Entries for this contest will be accepted from Feb, 25th at 8:00 a.m. until March 8th at 11:00 a.m. Please click to learn more about how to enter yourself or a loved one!

Heymann Center

David Laborde and Digger Earles law@onmyside.com

Parc Putnam

 

 

 

 

- Last feast before Lent. Although Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday, literally) is properly limited to Shrove Tuesday, it has come to be popularly applied to the preceding two weeks of celebration. Celebrated especially at New Orleans, LA, Mobile, AL and certain Mississippi and Florida cities. State holiday in Louisiana.

 

- On March 5, 1770, a skirmish between British troops and a crowd at Boston, MA, became widely publicized and contributed to the unpopularity of the British regime in the colonies before the American Revolution. Five men were killed and six more were injured by British troops commanded by Captain Thomas Preston.

 

- March 5, 1933 – On his first full day in office, President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed a national "Bank Holiday" to help save the nation's faltering banking system.

 

- Food lovers pick this day to enjoy these round, sugarcoated, fruit-filled, Polish pre-Lenten pastries, pronounced "poonch-kee," available in bakers nationwide. Paczki coincides with Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday.

 

- We want you to go see a show! The Laborde Earles Law Firm, a personal injury law firm in Lafayette, is excited to giveaway two tickets to Madea’s Farewell Play Tour at the Heymann Center on Tuesday March 12, 2019. Entries for this contest will be accepted from Feb, 25th at 8:00 a.m. until March 8th at 11:00 a.m. Please click to learn more about how to enter yourself or a loved one!

Heymann Center

David Laborde and Digger Earles law@onmyside.com

- Parents and their children will enjoy story time, songs with finger play, participate in a hands-on art project, and may explore the museum after the program. This program is free to attend.

Due to the overwhelming attendance the museum has experienced with this program, reservations are required to attend. We ask that you arrive and check in no later than 10 minutes prior to the program starting. If the class is full, the museum will provide you with child appropriate activities for you to partake in the galleries.

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Toddler Time is supported in part by Quest Pediatrics Dentistry.

Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

Susie Gottardi 337.482.0825 artmuseum@louisiana.edu

The Begnaud House

Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

Jolie Johnson 337.482.2278

McNeese

 

- Marks the beginning of Lent. Forty weekdays and six Sundays (Saturday considered a weekday) remain until Easter Sunday. Named for the use of ashes in ceremonial penance.

 

- On March 6, 1836, the anniversary of the fall of the Texan fort, the Alamo. The siege, led by Mexican general Santa Anna, began Feb 23rd and reached its climax March 6th, when the last of the defenders was slain. Texans, under General Sam Houston, rallied with the war cry "Remember the Alamo" and, at the Battle of San Jacinto, April 21st, defeated and captured Santa Anna, who signed a treaty recognizing Texas's independence.

 

- Moon enters New Moon phase at 11:03 AM, EST.

 

- We want you to go see a show! The Laborde Earles Law Firm, a personal injury law firm in Lafayette, is excited to giveaway two tickets to Madea’s Farewell Play Tour at the Heymann Center on Tuesday March 12, 2019. Entries for this contest will be accepted from Feb, 25th at 8:00 a.m. until March 8th at 11:00 a.m. Please click to learn more about how to enter yourself or a loved one!

Heymann Center

David Laborde and Digger Earles law@onmyside.com

Scott City Hall

Cajundome

 

- We want you to go see a show! The Laborde Earles Law Firm, a personal injury law firm in Lafayette, is excited to giveaway two tickets to Madea’s Farewell Play Tour at the Heymann Center on Tuesday March 12, 2019. Entries for this contest will be accepted from Feb, 25th at 8:00 a.m. until March 8th at 11:00 a.m. Please click to learn more about how to enter yourself or a loved one!

Heymann Center

David Laborde and Digger Earles law@onmyside.com

- Cajun and Creole Porch Style Music. Every Friday Night at the Begnaud House

Begnaud House

Russo Park

 

- A day to honor women, especially working women. Said to commemorate an 1857 march and demonstration of New York, NY, by female garment and textile workers.

 

Horse Farm

Sugar Mill Pond Town Center

- Twice a year, the Shadows hosts more than 100 vendors selling their hand-crafted items. From the beauty of fine art to practical wares for kitchens, the diversity is amazing.

Admission is $5.00 for ages 12 and over and $3.00 for ages 6-11. Admission includes a tour of the historic house.

For more information or questions, contact The Shadows at (337) 369-6446 or email at shadows@shadowsontheteche.org.

Shadows-on-the-Teche

Shadows-on-the-Teche 337.369.6446 shadows@shadowsontheteche.org

- Join us for the free seminar Saturday March 9 at 10am wherein we present classic, "heirloom & historic" landscape plants for our Southern gardens. We will begin with Azaleas in celebration of Lafayette's Azalea Trail, and coloration to The Azalea Trail Bike & Classic Car Cruise, which will be held this day as well.

Attendees will receive a gift for 20% off one azalea valid through 6pm March 9!

All Seasons Home, Garden and Landscaping Showplace

Lindsey Rosenbalm 337.264.1418 lrosenbalm@buyallseasons.com

- Join us on the second Saturday each month for yoga at the Hilliard Museum led by an RYT-200 certified instructor. Please bring your own yoga mat and arrive 10 minutes before class is scheduled to begin. The classes are donation based with a suggested amount of $10-$20.

Hilliard University Art Museum

Jolie Johnson 337.482.6060 jolie.johnson@louisiana.edu

Cajundome

Russo Park

- Tenor Javier Camarena and soprano Pretty Yende team up for a feast of bel canto vocal fireworks—including the show-stopping tenor aria “Ah! Mes amis,” with its nine high Cs. Alessandro Corbelli and Maurizio Muraro trade off as the comic Sergeant Sulpice, with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as the outlandish Marquise of Berkenfield. Enrique Mazzola conducts.

Acadiana Center for the Arts

- Art Walk Downtown Lafayette 6-8pm

Downtown Lafayette

 

Cajundome Convention Center

 

contact@zydecomarathon.com

Russo Park

Cajundome Convention Center

- Daylight Saving Time Begins at 2AM. Standard time in each zone is advanced one hour from 2 AM on the second Sunday in March until 2 AM on the first Sunday in November (except where state legislatures provide exemption.) Many use the popular rule "spring forward, fall back" to remember which way to turn the clocks.

 

Lamson Park

- The purpose of the Lafayette Photographic Society club is to bring people interested in photography together to help educate and inform them about how to become better photographers. A further purpose is to provide a fellowship opportunity for those of like interest. Standard meeting time is 7:00pm on the second and fourth Mondays of each month. If you are interested in learning more about your camera, please join us as a guest at one of our meetings. We have members that have been shooting for 40 years and members that just received their camera and they want to learn. We will help you learn! We hope to see you soon!

Comeaux Recreation Center

Jude Dubois 337.278.6668 jduboistlt@gmail.com

- March 11th, since 1999, a day for employees to "lie down and be counted" in support of napping at the work place! This day occurs on the Monday following the advent of daylight savings time.

 

First Assembly Lafayette

Russo Park

 

The Begnaud House

Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

Jolie Johnson 337.482.2278

- Cheylon Woods, Director of the Ernest Gaines Center at UL Lafayette, will lead a discussion delving into how the work of author Ernest Gaines relates to the exhibition Slavery, The Prison Industrial Complex.

Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

337.482.2278 artmuseum@louisiana.edu

Russo Park

- 2017 marks the 55th Anniversary of The Chieftains beginning. Since 1962, they have been six-time Grammy Award winners and been highly recognized for reinventing traditional Irish music on a contemporary and International scale. Their ability to transcend musical boundaries to blend tradition with modern music has notably hailed them as one of the most renowned and revered musical groups to this day.

As cultural ambassadors, their performances have been linked with seminal historic events, such as being the first Western musicians to perform on the Great Wall of China, participating in Roger Water’s “The Wall” performance in Berlin in 1990, and being the first ensemble to perform a concert in the Capitol Building in Washington DC. In 2010, their experimental collaborations extended to out of this world, when Paddy Moloney’s whistle and Matt Molloy’s flute traveled with NASA astronaut, Cady Coleman, to the International Space Station.

Although their early following was purely a folk audience, the range and variation of their music and accompanying musicians quickly captured a much broader audience, elevating their status to the likeness of fellow Irish band, U2.

In Ireland they have been involved in many major occasions, such as Pope John Paul II’s visit to Ireland in 1979 when they performed to an audience of over 1.3 million, and in 2011 as part of the historic visit to Ireland of HRH Queen Elizabeth II. In 2012, marking The Chieftains’ 50th Anniversary, they were awarded the inaugural National Concert Hall Lifetime Achievement Award at a gala event in Philadelphia hosted by The American Ireland Fund “in recognition of their tremendous contribution to the music industry worldwide and the promotion of the best of Irish culture.”

2012 marked the group’s 50th anniversary, and to celebrate this momentous occasion, The Chieftains once again invited friends from all musical styles to collaborate on their latest album, Voice of Ages. Featuring some of modern music’s fastest rising artists (Bon Iver, The Decemberists and Paolo Nutini among them), this album is proof that their music transcends not only stylistic and traditional boundaries, but generational as well.

The Chieftains are never afraid to shock purists and push genre boundaries and the trappings of fame have not altered The Chieftains' love of, and loyalty to, their roots however- they are as comfortable playing spontaneous Irish sessions as they are headlining a concert at Carnegie Hall. After fifty years of making some of the most beautiful music in the world, The Chieftains' music remains as fresh and relevant as when they first began.

Heymann Performing Arts Center

Lamson Park

- Join All Seasons Home, Garden and Landscaping Showplace for this FREE event with FREE wine to celebrate Spring's arrival!

All Seasons Home, Garden and Landscaping Showplace

Lindsey Rosenbalm 337.264.1418 lrosenbalm@buyallseasons.com

Essanee Theater

- A day to celebrate Pi! The ratio of a circle's circumference to it's diameter. Since the mathematical constant is about 3.14, March 14 became the day to observe it.

 

- Moon enters First Quarter Phase at 6:27 AM, EDT.

 

- “Representing Enslavement” is a one day conference (plus a keynote the night before) designed to bring together experts and practitioners in the public history of enslavement in Louisiana. Too often the deep history of enslavement in this region is twisted or erased in service of comfort, tourist dollars, or white supremacy. The conference seeks to foreground the perspective of artists, museum professionals, academic historians, public historians, and organizers in order to make this history present in Lafayette and Acadiana. It seeks to push for lasting changes in the way the history of enslavement is represented in the region and across the state.

The conference runs all day on March15, is preceded by a keynote address by Dr. LaKisha Simmons on Thursday, March 14 at 6:00 pm at UL in HL Griffin Hall 147, "Black Women's Memories: Monuments, History, and the Louisiana Sugar Plantations of Beyonce's Lemonade" and followed by a tour of Whitney Plantation Museum on Saturday, March 16 (transportation is provided). All events are free, but the conference and tour require free advance registration as space is limited.

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Clifton Chenier Center

Ian Beamish 337.482.6900 ian.beamish@louisiana.edu

- Cajun and Creole Porch Style Music. Every Friday Night at the Begnaud House

Begnaud House

Lamson Park

Essanee Theater

- Azerbaijan-born, globe-trotting composer and pianist Amina Figarova introduces ten colorful, compelling new compositions performed by her touring sextet plus guests on Blue Whisper, her 13th album since her 1994 debut Attraction.

Figarova's deeply personal, highly evocative responses to social turmoil, distinctive personalities she's encountered and universal transitions of life inform the music on Blue Whisper. Moods range from the haunting beauty of the titular track "Blue Whisper," as well as "Moonrise" and "Hewa" (featuring lyrics in Swahili by Sarah Elizabeth Charles) to the straight-ahead momentum of "Moving Forward," "The Hustler" and "The Traveler," to the sophisticated playfulness of "Pictures," "Marians" and "Juno." In "Hear My Voice," over a martial beat and sorrowful, resolute horn choir, an eight-year-old girl earnestly urges an end to violence world-wide and, with laughter, a request to "Let kids be kids."

Throughout all tracks, Amina's classically founded touch, her lilting melodies, luminous harmonies, often understated yet always propulsive rhythms and star soloists come together with immaculate sophistication. Trumpeters Ernie Hammesand Alex Pope Norris, saxophonists Wayne Escofferyand Marc Mommaas, bassists Luques Curtisand Yasushi Nakamura, drummerJason Brown, flutist Bart Platteau-- Figarova's partner and husband of nearly 25 years – and electric guitarist Anthony Wilson(on "Pictures") are featured advantageously in spontaneous, creative engagement with her compositional themes and intentions.

Amina Figarova was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, and as a child studied to be a classical concert pianist. In the late 1980s she entered Rotterdam Conservatory to pursue jazz, coming to the United State in 1989 to complete her formal education at Boston's Berklee College of Music (where she met Platteau, a fellow student from Belgium). In 1998 they were invited to the Thelonious Monk Institute's summer jazz colony in Aspen, and after more than a decade of bookings in major U.S. jazz clubs, concert halls and festivals, the couple gained legal immigrant status in 2014. They currently live in Manhattan, and tour constantly.

The compositions "Pictures" and "The Traveler" were commissioned by Jazz from Lincoln Center for its 2014-15 New Jazz Standards series. Blue Whisperis Figarova's second album, after Twelve, on In + Out Records, an independent label based in Freiberg, Germany.

Written by Howard Mandel, 2015

Acadiana Center for the Arts

Warehouse 535

 

Horse Farm

- Join us and the Lafayette Parish Master Gardener Association for a free seminar March 16 at 10am on Square Foot Gardening! Master Gardener Theresa Guidry will teach you all you need to know about planning, creating, and growing a successful garden into pre-divided squares.

Attendees will receive a gift for 20% off a product to be given at presentation valid through 6pm March 16!

All Seasons Home, Garden and Landscaping Showplace

Lindsey Rosenbalm 337.264.1418 lrosenbalm@buyallseasons.com

Lamson Park

Essanee Theater

 

Warehouse 535

- Downtown St. Martinville

Downtown

337.394.2258

- Louisiana Comic Con is a two day event being held at the Cajundome Convention Center (444 Cajundome Blvd., Lafayette, LA 70506) and will bring together a diverse list of guests, vendors, artists, and fan groups, in an affordable, family friendly environment.

Cajundome Convention Center

Sugar Mill Pond Town Center

Lamson Park

Essanee Theater

- Louisiana Comic Con is a two day event being held at the Cajundome Convention Center (444 Cajundome Blvd., Lafayette, LA 70506) and will bring together a diverse list of guests, vendors, artists, and fan groups, in an affordable, family friendly environment.

Cajundome Convention Center

- Every year on March 17, the Irish and the Irish-at-heart across the world observe St. Patrick’s Day. What began as a religious feast day for the patron saint of Ireland has become an international festival celebrating Irish culture with parades, dancing, special foods and a whole lot of green.

 

 

Russo Park

 

The Madison

The Begnaud House

Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

Jolie Johnson 337.482.2278

Lamson Park

- Join us for an evening of live music at the Hilliard. The program of Dr. Andrea Kapell Loewy and Dr. Yu Ling Huang-Davie consists of Flute and Piano compositions of the mid twentieth century, emphasizing the romantic and lyrical aspects of musical collaboration.

Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

337.482.2278 artmuseum@louisiana.edu

Tulane

 

- Spring begins today in the northern hemisphere with the vernal equinox at 5:58 PM, EDT. Daylight length is virtually the same everywhere today. 12 hours & 8 minutes.

 

- So called by the Native American tribes of New England and the Great Lakes because at this time of year there are signs of earthworms as the ground thaws in preparation for spring. March's full moon.

 

Essanee Theater

Le Triomphe Golf and Country Club

337.593.8000

- Cajun and Creole Porch Style Music. Every Friday Night at the Begnaud House

Begnaud House

Russo Park

Essanee Theater

Cajundome

Le Triomphe Golf and Country Club

337.593.8000

Broussard Sports Complex

- The Acadiana Dragon Boat Races is hosted by Iberia ON TAP and involves 26 Dragon Boat teams (21 members per team) participating for the coveted Dragon Boat Race Championship, Best Drummer, Best Tent Area and most Team Spirit to name a few.The proceeds from this years event will go to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Acadiana and New Iberia Parks & Rec.

Bouligny Plaza

Rhyan Wheeler 337.268.9555 rwheeler@bgcacadiana.com

- Pre-Registration First 5 Jeeps to Pre-Register will get One Free T-shirt, Towel and $50 Bar Tab @ Quarter Tavern.

Pre-Registration $25.00 and $5.00 per passenger

Quarter Tavern

Danette Guillotte 337.519.8576

- Join us for this free seminar March 23 at 10am on edibles- either starting a garden from seeds or buying a pepper plant or satsuma tree! We will cover the basics and details for you to have gardening success and bring it to your table for final enjoyment!

Attendees will receive a gift for 20% off a product to be given at presentation valid through 6pm March 23!

All Seasons Home, Garden and Landscaping Showplace

Lindsey Rosenbalm 337.264.1418 lrosenbalm@buyallseasons.com

Russo Park

- Selections include otherworldly "Jupiters" by W.A. Mozart and G. Holst, movie score from ET(Extraterrestrial) by J. Williams and "out of the classical charts" most famous P. Tchaikovsky's piano concerto. Featuring guest pianist Xiaohui Yang, Gold Medal Winner of 2016 International New Orleans Piano Competition.

Heymann Performing Arts Center

Essanee Theater

- Founded by Ronald K. Brown in 1985 and based in Brooklyn, New York, Evidence, A Dance Company focuses on the seamless integration of traditional African dance with contemporary choreography and spoken word. Through work, Evidence provides a unique view of human struggles, tragedies, and triumphs. Brown uses movement as a way to reinforce the importance of community in African American culture and to acquaint audiences with the beauty of traditional African forms and rhythms. He is an advocate for the growth of the African American dance community and is instrumental in encouraging young dancers to choreograph and to develop careers in dance.

Acadiana Center for the Arts

Cajundome

Couret Farms

- To celebrate puppies for all the joy they bring to our lives! Adopt one today!

 

Russo Park

Essanee Theater

Le Triomphe Golf and Country Club

337.593.8000

Northwest Community Center Pavilion

337.457.2565

- The purpose of the Lafayette Photographic Society club is to bring people interested in photography together to help educate and inform them about how to become better photographers. A further purpose is to provide a fellowship opportunity for those of like interest. Standard meeting time is 7:00pm on the second and fourth Mondays of each month. If you are interested in learning more about your camera, please join us as a guest at one of our meetings. We have members that have been shooting for 40 years and members that just received their camera and they want to learn. We will help you learn! We hope to see you soon!

Comeaux Recreation Center

Jude Dubois 337.278.6668 jduboistlt@gmail.com

Doubletree by Hilton

 

- Annual day honoring the heroic recipients of the Medal of Honor, the highest award that can be given by the president.

 

Russo Park

- Hosted by Sam Doores

The Deslondes is a five-piece band from New Orleans known for their studied and inventive take on southern R&B and Country music. With the release of their sophomore album, Hurry Home, the band has toured extensively while remaining highly active in the local community, creating a unique roots music mecca in the Holy Cross neighborhood of the Lower Ninth Ward. In 2016, with the intention of capturing and marketing the spirit of this formidable music community, Deslondes member Sam Doores cofounded Mashed Potato Records with musician/producer friend Duff Thompson and they began recording bands on an old reel to reel recorder in their vans and in makeshift home studios. "Over the past couple years,” says Doores, “ we have been lucky enough to record, produce, and play with an amazing collection of artists.” For Louisiana Crossroads, The Deslondes bring this special community to the ACA, performing their own material as well as shining the spotlight on a variety of Mashed Potato Recording artists.

Acadiana Center for the Arts

The Begnaud House

Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

Jolie Johnson 337.482.2278

- Explore the long and successful career of artist and UL Lafayette College of the Arts Professor of Painting John Hathorn as he looks back on his artist works, his life in academia, and what is yet to come.

Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

337.482.2278 artmuseum@louisiana.edu

- Sharing Circle is a monthly symposium on the anthropological, sociological, psychological, and philosophical study of specific topics in various tribal/indigenous, classical polythiestic, neopagan, and intrapersonal spiritualities. Originally, Sharing Circle covered specific topics in specific religions with a presenter, akin to a workshop. Today, Sharing Circle is much more discussion based. Participants focus on one question per gathering and share their experiences and perspectives with others. The experience is both challenging and informational. Many participants state that they are asked to evaluate their beliefs logically and to entertain ideas you may not have considered before.

Main Library

- Hosted by Sam Doores

The Deslondes is a five-piece band from New Orleans known for their studied and inventive take on southern R&B and Country music. With the release of their sophomore album, Hurry Home, the band has toured extensively while remaining highly active in the local community, creating a unique roots music mecca in the Holy Cross neighborhood of the Lower Ninth Ward. In 2016, with the intention of capturing and marketing the spirit of this formidable music community, Deslondes member Sam Doores cofounded Mashed Potato Records with musician/producer friend Duff Thompson and they began recording bands on an old reel to reel recorder in their vans and in makeshift home studios. "Over the past couple years,” says Doores, “ we have been lucky enough to record, produce, and play with an amazing collection of artists.” For Louisiana Crossroads, The Deslondes bring this special community to the ACA, performing their own material as well as shining the spotlight on a variety of Mashed Potato Recording artists.

Acadiana Center for the Arts

River Ranch Town Square

337.216.6566

Essanee Theater

- Moon enters Last Quarter phase at 12:09 AM, EST.

 

- Cajun and Creole Porch Style Music. Every Friday Night at the Begnaud House

Begnaud House

- Dianne Mouton- Allen will mediate a discussion addressing the exhibition Slavery, The Prison Industrial Complex, featuring experts and community members from across the political spectrum.

Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

Susie Gottardi 337.482.0825 artmuseum@louisiana.edu

Essanee Theater

Broussard Sports Complex

- A day recognizing those very special husband-and-wife business owner teams.

 

- Mar 29, 1848 a massive assemblage of ice blocks formed upstream of Niagara Falls late on Mar 29th and by midnight had stopped water flow over the falls. The ice jam held until April 1st when the waters of Lake Erie punched through and things got back to normal.

 

Horse Farm

- Join us to DIG IT! In this hands-on workshop on March 30 at 10am, you will plant a colorful container garden in a colorful pot right in time for Easter porch decoration! We'll teach you the proper planting and combination techniques to ensure your success in all container gardening!
Children, with parent supervision, are welcome to join in the fun!
The fee for this class is $20 for all-inclusive of supplies and instructor.
Please RSVP to ensure your spot to Lindsey Rosenbalm: lrosenbalm@buyallseasons.com, 337.264.1418

All Seasons Home, Garden and Landscaping Showplace

Lindsey Rosenbalm 337.264.1418 lrosenbalm@buyallseasons.com

- Pop Up Promotions presents Fitness and Beyond. An event scheduled to help everyone make healthy decisions regarding their body from head to toe. Join us for strength training, cardio, massages, and vendors to take care of all of you.

Guests - $ 5 entry fee gets you admission to take any class, use all of the workout equipment, speak to fitness trainers, and meet vendors to help you onto a healthy lifestyle. Chair massages, wash and style sets, samples and advice will be offered. Stay tuned for more details.

Fitness and Beyond

Sandra M McKinney 337.591.0626 joshuarobin1992@yahoo.com

- In what is expected to be a Wagnerian event for the ages, soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan’s willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera’s most famous act of filial defiance. Tenor Stuart Skelton and soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek play the incestuous twins Siegmund and Sieglinde. Greer Grimsley sings Wotan. Philippe Jordan conducts.

Acadiana Center for the Arts

Our Lady of Wisdom Church

Essanee Theater

 

- Chubby Carrier

Sugar Mill Pond Town Center

Essanee Theater