Get Ready to Rock for CF!
It’s that time of year again! So put on your dancing shoes and come enjoy dancing, music, food, and fun at the 11th Annual Deep South Crane & Rigging Swamp Pop Music Festival as it gets ready to rock for the Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Foundation. The festival will be held in Gonzales at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center’s air-conditioned Trade Mart Building on Friday, July 18 and Saturday, July 19, 2008. Rain or shine, come out and enjoy the fun!
This year’s live entertainment features an extensive line-up of Swamp Pop musicians including Foret Tradition, Kane Glaze and Coozan, Waylon Thibodeaux “Louisiana’s Rockin’ Fiddler,” and many more legends of Swamp Pop music. Swamp Pop is a unique blend of New Orleans-style rhythm and blues, country and western, and Cajun and Creole music. To see our complete music line-up please visit www.swamppopmusicfest.com.
In addition to the music, the festival will feature a two-day jambalaya cook-off, an open truck and car show, and a motorcycle poker run. Tickets will be available for purchase at the gate and gates will open at 5 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. on Saturday. Friday admission is $12, Saturday admission is $10, and weekend passes are available for $20. Award-winning jambalaya made by our cook-off contestants, hamburgers and other delicious food and drinks will be available for purchase throughout the festival.
The Swamp Pop Music Festival has become the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s largest attended event in the nation as it continues to draw in a crowd of over 6,000 festival attendees each year. People come from across the nation to experience our unique Swamp Pop music and culture. The festival found its origins with David Eastridge and Swamp Pop performer Cody Marchand in 1998 after Eastridge’s granddaughter was diagnosed with CF. Eastridge and Marchand decided to team up and organize a fundraising festival for cystic fibrosis research. As the festival continues to grow in popularity with each passing year, the CF Foundation continues to make significant strides toward finding a cure and improving the quality of life for those with the disease.
All proceeds from the Deep South Crane and Rigging Swamp Pop Music Festival benefit the Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Foundation. The CF Foundation works to find a cure for CF and better the quality of life for those with the disease. Nearly 90 cents of each dollar raised is put directly into research and treatment programs for CF patients. Please contact the CF Foundation at 225-769-9994 for additional information.
