FOLKLIFE
Along US Highway 65 in Louisiana

Music: old-time country music (family and community bands, benefits and country music shows), bluegrass, rockabilly, blues (delta blues, rhythm & blues with guitar, bass, horns, harmonica), gospel music (African American gospel quartets, shaped-note singing, gospel radio shows, Mennonite a cappella family singing, and Pentecostal Church music) http://www.deltablues.net/index.html 

Crafts: tupelo gum dough bowls, split oak basketry, carving, whittling, quilting, soap making, and hunting horns, buttermaking, cane syrupmaking, barbecue, fish cookery,  auctioneering, cotton farming (and other crops including catfish), cotton press calling, cropdusting, logging, boatbuilding, trapping, netmaking, riverlore (river pilots� stories, rope skills, river customs) and so much more!  Our festivals feature many of these!

Links for more information:

Willing to Take the Risk
http://www.folklife.si.edu/resources/Festival1997/willing.htm  

Contests! and more> http://www.nsula.edu/folklife/ 

http://www.laarchaeology.org/ 

Come Celebrate Life the Way We Do!!
http://zydecocajunbyway.com/history.html 

http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/museums/museums/museums-index.htm