Combining Passion and Professionalism

The bayous of Louisiana are the habitat of 

American alligators, blue herons, crabs, white-tailed deer and fish.

 For the Acadians of South Louisiana 

Sassafras or "file" is an essential plant. 

The leaves of sassafras are 

used in cookery to thicken gumbo.

 Louisiana irises match well with the increasing 

movement towards greater use of indigenous plants.

 The Mi'kmaq helped the Acadians fight the British during the 

deportation of the Acadians during the French and Indian Wars.

 The Choctaw tribe continues language, music, basketry, clothing and sports 

practices while adapting to the local society and economically flourishing.

 The Houmas initially resided in eastern Mississippi, but were moved with other eastern 

Mississippi tribes over the border to Louisiana, where they merged with Cajun groups. 

To this day the Houma 

tribe still resides in Louisiana.

 The creoles are people who have descended from colonial 

Louisiana inhabitants during the time of French and Spanish rule. 

Louisiana Creoles share cultural links such as the traditional 

use of the Creole languages French, Spanish and Louisiana

 The cajuns are an ethnic group, primarily in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and in the Canadian maritime provinces, as well as in Quebec, 

consisting of certain descendants of the original Acadian exiles — French-speakers from Acadia (L'Acadie) in what are now the Maritimes of Eastern Canada.

 The Acadians are the descendants of French colonists who settled in Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries, many of whom also came from the region's indigenous people. The colony was centered in what is now the Maritime Provinces of Eastern Canada (New Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island), as well as part of Quebec, and nowadays. 

On March 2, 1699, Jean Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur de Bienville, a French-Canadian explorer, arrived at a land plot 60 miles 

south of New Orleans and named it "Pointe du Mardi Gras" when his crew realized it was the eve of the festive holiday.

Locals and tourists love the free festival for its charming and eccentric rituals, such as life-sized tomatoes 

strolling through the grounds distributing tomato-shaped fans and auctioning off local chefs from the season's first tomatoes.

New Orleans soul has pop music and soul 

components, and is inspired by the style of boogie-woogie. 

A piano and a saxophone 

also go with the songs. 

Guitars in that 

genre are rare. 

It was popularized in Crescent 

City in the postwar period.