Best CAP
Best Open Marketing
2008

Volunteer of the Year
Division III
Greg Price

Welcome to the official home of the Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival.  Please join us for our 73rd annual festival to be held Labor Day Weekend, August 28 - September 1, 2008, in picturesque downtown Morgan City, Louisiana.  This is an event that will prove that oil and water really do mix. Deep in the heart of Cajun Country, every Labor Day Weekend, tens of thousands of people celebrate at Louisiana's oldest chartered harvest festival.
The festival has been honoring those who have worked tirelessly through rain and shine...and sometimes even hurricanes, to provide the area's economic lifeblood for over half a century.  The festival also emphasizes the unique way in which these two seemingly different industries work hand-in-hand culturally and environmentally in this area of the "Cajun Coast."  The event is free and has grown to become one of the country's premiere festivals.  There's plenty of fun for "kids" of all ages and lots to see, hear, do and eat!  The festival is truly a feast for ALL senses and according to Time Magazine, "...one of the best, most unusual, the most down-home, the most moving and the most fun the Country has to offer..."

The Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival, the state's oldest chartered harvest festival, garnered the award of 2007 Festival of the Year in Division III along with Best Pin/Button and Best Marketing Item. Pictured with the awards are Pat Grow; Rodney Grow, Boardmember; Nathalie Weber, Board President; Jada Aloisio, Festival Director; Brent Bergeron, Board Vice President; and Rose Bergeron.

Festival Vice President, Brent Bergeron, was named the 2007 LAFF Volunteer of the Year for Division III. Pictured below are Paul McGee, 2007 LAFF President; Brent Bergeron; and Dennis Mouton, 2006 LAFF President.