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Fried Chicken Festival returns this Fall with new Lakefront location
The National Fried Chicken Festival adds to a packed October schedule that includes FQ Fest, Jazz Fest and VooDoo Fest. Author: WWL Staff Updated: 12:21 PM CDT May 12, 2021
NEW ORLEANS The National Fried Chicken Festival is returning this October with a new location.
Festival organizers announced that the Fried Chicken Festival will return on the Oct. 23-24 weekend, but this time it will take place on the New Orleans Lakefront.
The new venue doubles the size of the free festival, which broke attendance records in 2019. The New Orleans community has eagerly awaited the return of festivals, and we are so grateful for the opportunity to celebrate together once again at a new and exciting location to mark the fifth anniversary of the National Fried Chicken Festival,” said Cleveland Spears, III, FCF Executive Producer and President/CEO of the Spears Group.
“This repair that needs to be done on the backside of this part of the shelter and on the other side occurred during the storm,” Romero said. “If we’re going to repair it, we have to have the money to do it.”
Right now, the LMA is waiting on a check from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
“I wish we could do better,” Romero said. “I don’t have an answer. I’m held up to the constraints of the bureaucracy.”
Shelter 4 is out of commission because it has no running water. Shelters 2 and 3 are open but were recently damaged by vandals.