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By VICTORIA DODGE and Lafayette Daily Advertiser - Associated Press - Saturday, April 24, 2021
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - Looking down Jefferson Street toward Vermilion Street, Phil Lank watching as tens of thousands of people swayed and danced to the Master Drummers of Rwanda in July of 1987.
It was Festival International de Louisiane’s first year. After months of planning, trips to Quebec, and a $125,000 budget, downtown Lafayette had created what would become one of the world’s largest francophone festivals.
Festival International was a culmination of things - Downtown Alive!, Herman Mhire, and a dying downtown.
Amis kept Festival International alive over long history
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Looking down Jefferson Street toward Vermilion Street, Phil Lank watching as tens of thousands of people swayed and danced to the Master Drummers of Rwanda in July of 1987.
It was Festival International de Louisiane s first year. After months of planning, trips to Quebec, and a $125,000 budget, downtown Lafayette had created what would become one of the world s largest francophone festivals.
Festival International was a culmination of things Downtown Alive!, Herman Mhire, and a dying downtown.
At the time, Lank was the director of Lafayette’s Community Development Department. He and a few others had been working hard for the past year to create a new festival for Lafayette, part of a larger project to revitalize downtown.