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Get our free mobile app It seems as though it's been years since we had a real festival in Louisiana, because, in reality, it has. COVID hit us just as Mardi Gras was getting underway in 2020 so the entire festival calendar was wiped clean faster than a nine year old can go through a bag of Oreos. We lost Holiday in Dixie, Poke Salad, the Red River Revel and most importantly, Mudbug Madness was called off. You could hear the wind being sucked from the lungs of the Mudbug Madness crazed as the thought of going through a Memorial Day weekend without the traditional zydeco music and hot, boiled ...

Get our free mobile app It has been an extremely long fourteen months of "nothing to do." Those who used to say, "There's nothing to do around here", found out how prophetic that statement was, once the entire country was in the grips of the COVID pandemic, but in the last couple weeks following Governor Edwards' loosening of the restrictions, we have been pleasantly surprised to see a number of events arising from the ashes. There have been announcements of concerts, the reincarnation of Mudbug Madness, high school graduations, and now, we get word of the Red Bud Stampede this weekend at the...

3 more North West Louisiana parishes have met the criteria to move to the next level of re-opening

With the news of our state entering the next phase towards a full-reopening, Mudbug Madness took to Facebook to make a special announcement.

SHREVEPORT, La -- Phase 3 of reopening from the COVID-19 pandemic means most businesses and events can increase capacity to 50 percent. It's a boost for local tourism after the lost year of 2020, with festival season on the way. "This opens us up to new events that haven't been able to happen to this point," said Stacy Brown, President of the Shreveport-Bossier Convention & Tourist Bureau. "It also allows us to increase attendance to some of those already planned." Gov. John Bel Edwards' order to further reopen the state appears to come too late for Holiday In Dixie, which traditionally opens...