Downtown Alive

Do you live for the weekend? Downtown Alive is a great way to get it started. It will be my pleasure to co-host when Nik-L-Beer takes the stage in Parc Sans Souci Friday, at 6pm. Concessions will be available @ 5:30.  "Acadiana's Favorite Party Band" always draws a large fun-loving crowd, and the weather's going to be great!

The 5 characters you've come to know and love that appear at just about every Downtown Alive!

I remember seeing Roddie Romero perform at Festival International de Louisiane when he was about 15.

It's Homecoming for UL and that means a parade and a football game, of course, but there are lots more things to do this weekend around Lafayette, too! Here are some of our picks: The lunchtime Healing House Jambalaya Cookoff will give you the chance to sample over 25 different recipes on Friday, October 5...

Downtown Alive continues to celebrate its 30th Anniversary season this Friday, September 28th with The Mercy Brothers (Rockabilly/Gospel) in Parc Sans Souci.

Our picks for fun things to do this weekend include: Friday Kermit Ruffins at Downtown Alive Saturday Compete 4 a Cause at Acadian Oaks Sunday Tailgating for Autism at Oasis More fun things to do here.

Downtown Alive celebrates its 30th Anniversary with the fall 2012 season. It looks like a great one!  Things kick off September 7th, with the brass sounds of  Treme’s Kermit Ruffins and the Barbeque Swingers. Here's the lineup September 7 Kermit Ruffins & the Barbeque Swingers (New Orleans Jazz & Swing - Parc International) September 14 Horace Trahan & The Ossun Express (Zydeco – Parc

Rareluth & Royal Teeth take the stage at Parc Sans Souci for Downtown Alive this June 1st.  This is the last DTA 'til fall.   Concessions open at 5:30. The music starts at 6:00. All ages are welcome. Admission is free.

What more could you ask for? Great music from The Creole String Beans at Downtown Alive, and Bread Pudding! Lafayette's Bread Pudding Taste Off Will Be held Friday, May 18th, at DTA, in Parc Sans Souci.

The Creole String Beans take the stage at Parc Sans Souci for Downtown Alive this Friday, May 18th. Concessions open at 5:30. The music starts at 6:00. Downtown Alive is produced by Downtown Lafayette Unlimited. All ages are welcome. Admission is free...

Li'l  Buck Senegal takes the stage at Parc Sans Souci for Downtown Alive tonight. Cocessions open at 5:30. The music starts at 6:00. DTA! is produced by Downtown Lafayette Unlimited.

Li'l  Buck Senegal takes the stage at Parc Sans Souci for Downtown Alive this Friday, May 11th.  Cocessions open at 5:30. The music starts at 6:00. DTA! is produced by Downtown Lafayette Unlimited.

The weekend is almost here!  Downtown Alive is a great way to get it started. Nik-L-Beer takes the stage in Parc International at 6pm. Concessions will be available @ 5:30.  The weather's going to be great!

This weekend brings us hot music, hot feet and hot sauce- in Lafayette, Opelousas and New Iberia. To kick off the weekend, The Lost Bayou Ramblers play Downtown Alive tonight. And that's just the beginning...

The Lost Bayou Ramblers Take the stage at Parc Sans Souci for Downtown Alive this Friday, April 13th.  Cocessions open at 5:30. The music starts at 6:00. All ages are welcome. Admission is free.

The spring 2012 season of Downtown Alive is underway, and there's a great one in store this Friday! Cowboy Mouth takes the stage at Parc International at 6pm Friday.

A big Louisiana sports fun weekend starts with high school football tonight. Tomorrow, the Ragin Cajuns take on UL-M in our final home game of the season. Fans are encouraged to wear white to 'White Out' Cajun Field. LSU travels to Tuscaloosa to play Alabama and the Saints take on Tampa Bay in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome...

downtownlafayette.org The fall 2011 season opener of Downtown Alive, featuring The Nik-L-Beer Band has been cancelled due to bad weather. Next week , The Charmaine Neville Band will takes the stage at 6pm in Parc International.

The Fall 2011 season of Downtown Alive Gets underway Friday, September 2nd, when the Nik-L-Beer Band takes the stage at Parc International in downtown Lafayette.  Refreshments are available at 5:30.

When Bernie & I first started dining around during the Eat Lafayette campaign, we always made sure to sample the bread pudding at every restaurant (and let me tell you, there is lots of really good bread pudding in Lafayette's restaurants!) We always joked that the one festival missing from the celebration of food landscape was the one dedicated to the sweet, creamy goodness of a good pudding