Festival Tours International
Eunice - Erath - Ville Platte - St. Martinville
April 22 - 29, 2004$1599 - ("Land package", Early Bird price based on double occupancy)
Includes first weekend of Jazz Fest
with an optional "add on" of the second weekend of Jazz Fest
plus our 3-day midweek trip out to Cajun Country
"Cajun Country only" also available; $750 (subject to availability)
Join us for an insider's trip to Louisiana * Stay in the heart of the bayou * Cruise down the bayou swamps * Experience the taste of the Cajun country at our annual private crawfish boil at the home of Marc & Ann Savoy * Enjoy a rockin' zydeco Bar-B-Q with Geno Delafose at his country ranch outside Eunice * Taste the best in Cajun cooking with renowned chef Patrick Mould * Roll into the exciting city of New Orleans for the best music festival in the world! "Jazzfest" has non-stop music with over 3,000 musicians on 12 stages!
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., # 17, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
Fax/Tel (818) 346-5146 (310) 454-4080
E-mail: Festtours@aol.com
Download and print out our
booking form and
booking conditions
(PDF format file; free Adobe Acrobat reader required)
BCM Festival Tours, London WC1N 3XX
Email for UK/Europe enquiries:
Richard Perdik, richard@back-catalogue.com
PO Box 861, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE99 1FN.
ITINERARY for the Louisiana Music Tour 2004
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., # 17 Pacific Palisades, California 90272 Fax/Tel (818) 346-5146 (310) 454-4080 E-mail: Festtours@aol.com
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Email Nancy for more info on the Tour
Read more about Jazzfest, and
visit the Official New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival site
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Read about our previous music trips to England and
Scotland, plus Central Europe!
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