Presented by the Bayou Regional Arts Council
Zebra — Randy Jackson, Guy Gelso, and Felix Hanemann, together since 1975 — closes the Main Stage at 8 p.m. on their 50th Anniversary Tour. Before that: an all-Louisiana day of rock, blues, Cajun, zydeco, and swamp pop, with Louisiana’s LeRoux at 6 p.m. and Spank the Monkey at 9:45 p.m. for the Brickhouse Reunion Afterparty.
Baton Rouge’s melodic rock band Louisiana’s LeRoux, hits include “New Orleans Ladies,” “Take a Ride On a Riverboat,” and “Nobody Said It Was Easy”, plays the Main Stage at 6 p.m. under headliner Zebra.
Returning for 2026: Cajun, Creole, Vietnamese, Native American, and bayou traditions on stage and in the streets throughout the festival day — United Houma Nation, Southern Indigenous Tribal Dancers, gospel, Cajun music with Waylon Thibodaux, lion dance, and more.
Full Culture Collective and Bayou Players set times are on the Schedule page.
Free admission, 10 a.m.–11 p.m., Downtown Houma. Art market, food, kids activities, Culture Collective, and Bayou Players run with the Main Stage bill.
Three stages fill the day: Main Stage music, Culture Collective folklife and dance, and Bayou Players theatre cues — see the full Schedule for every set time.
Main Stage runs 11:30 a.m. to Zebra at 8 p.m., then Spank the Monkey at 9:45 p.m. Full cue sheets are on the Schedule page.
Bayou Arts Fest is produced by BRAC, supporting arts access across South Louisiana’s bayou parishes.
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