The Season of Fest, Starts with the Best

Attention fellow merriment makers: It’s officially Festival Season.

And no place does it better than New Orleans.

Ok but really, who does anything better than New Orleans?

So put your crawfish crepe eatin’, Abita beer drinkin’, party pants on and head to the French Quarter this weekend.

‘Cause it’s time for French Quarter Fest, y’all!

If you’ve never been, we recommend hitting up FQF’s webpage at:

http://www.fqfi.org/frenchquarterfest/

Or you can download their super nifty smartphone app.

Of course you’re probably looking for us to lay out your entire weekend for you, but “the largest free music festival in the south” is just a wee bit too extensive for our little fingers to handle. So we’re leaving it to you to seek out the music that livens your soul and go eat the food from which you’d like to be full. You can find your way, we believe in you.

However, we have compiled a list of 4 very simple tasks for you to accomplish this weekend:

·         Eat

·         Drink

·         Be Merry

·         Be completely and utterly obsessed, consumed, dominated, riveted and engrossed by the French Quarter. This is one of New Orleans most prized and loved possessions and you’re lucky enough experience every single magical idiosyncrasy being thrown at you in just 72 hours.

So while you’re out there this weekend and you find yourself suddenly overcome with the urge to stop dead in your tracks and scream out “THANK YOU, NEW ORLEANS” at the top of your lungs. Just do it. It’s likely a member of the LOC team just did it ten seconds ago, across Jacksons Square. And that would be sweet if some random person heard both of us.

And be sure to follow us on twitter @loveourcitynola for up to date reviews on the massive amounts of eating/drinking/music enjoying that we plan to do over the next three days. (That is of course if our cell phone connections feel like battling the 1/2 million people that are expected to be in attendance over the weekend. We’ve been whispering sweet nothings to Siri all week in hope that she’ll be kind in connecting us to the intrawebs throughout the fest...)

“Laissez les bon temps rouler”

          - LOC’s Uncle FESTer