Eunice - Erath - Ville Platte - St. Martinville
April 24th - May 4th, 2003For those of you going to Jazz Fest on your own this year...
Join us for a special limited edition midweek trip out to Louisiana's Cajun country nestled between the weekends of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Organized by popular demand; we were going to take a year off! This is an "insiders" trip with very limited space so come and enjoy the music, food and friends of one of the most unique places in all of America, Louisiana's Cajun Country. Attendance for this year's trip is very limited.
If you'd like to plan ahead a bit more you can join us next year for our
annual Louisiana Music Tour which will
include the first weekend of Jazz Fest, hotels in the French Quarter,
Jazz Fest Tickets & shuttle, plus our full Cajun Country Tour...
which will include a Zydeco BBQ at Geno Delafose's country ranch instead
of Nottoway Plantation. Dates will be April 25 - May 1st, 2003)
Come with us to eat, drink, dance & be merryin the warm Louisiana sun!
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"It's really wonderful that people like Nancy who have enough, what you
might say, 'soul', that she can organize a really down-home trip like this
for you folks where you can hear music and eat crawfish after going out
and catching 'em for yourself. She really puts you in contact. You really
get in the mud!" --- Marc Savoy
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"A trip on Nancy Covey's musical excursions is to get INSIDE the culture your
visiting. She knows all the local musicians, all the local chefs, and you
get steeped in an insider's view that can't be had if you're a tourist. It's
better to wander lost, than to follow a map made by tourists. With Nancy you
get extremely interesting traveling companions, a very happy stomach, and
the soundtrack is unique regional songs played live! I'm a musician, and I
had a blast!" --- John Densmore
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"Nancy's tour is the truest experience of Cajun food and music that you
can get without being a local ... and I sure didn't feel like I was on a
tour!" --- Chuck Taggart,
Author/webmaster of The Gumbo
Pages, music programmer/host of "Down
Home", on KCSN 88.5 FM, Northridge
/ Los Angeles, Calif.
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"Everyone should go on Nancy's trip at least once in their lifetime!"
--- Sandy Miranda, host of
"Music
of the World", on KPFA-FM, Berkeley,
Calif.
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| "We first went on Nancy's tour back in 1991 as an easy way to go to the Jazz Festival. We thought the Fest was the most fun you could possibly have, until we got to the Cajun country part of the tour ... we had to come on the trip again. And again. Each year, we thought "How can we miss it?" ... Each year, we went to the crawfish boil, easily the best party we've ever attended. Each year, we think we can't possibly have as much fun as last year. And yet, we do. Nancy always tops herself. Our all time favorite memory? The year we got married at the crawfish boil. Told you it was a good party!!" --- Steve Hochman and Mary Herczog. Read more about what they have to say! | |
Festival Tours International
15237 Sunset Blvd., PMB 17, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
Fax/Tel (818) 346-5146 (310) 454-4080
E-mail: Festtours@aol.com
BCM Festival Tours, London WC1N 3XX
Email for UK/Europe enquiries:
Richard Perdik at Route 66, richardp@route66.demon.co.uk
ITINERARY HIGHLIGHTS -- Louisiana Cajun Country Tour 2002
Click on each picture for a full-sized version with captions (from some of our previous trips).
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Laissez les bons temps rouler!
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Want to know more? Phone, fax or write to: Nancy Covey or Joey Thompson Festival Tours International 15237 Sunset Blvd., PMB 17 Pacific Palisades, California 90272 Fax/Tel (818) 346-5146 (310) 454-4080 E-mail: Festtours@aol.com
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