Entertainment

BATON ROUGE – NPR’s “From the Top” program and the LSU College of Music & Dramatic Arts invite young classical musicians – instrumental and vocal soloists and/or ensembles and composers – ages 8-18 to audition for national broadcasts of “From the Top.”

THIBODAUX – The entire region is invited to the second annual Louisiana Swamp Stomp Festival – a musical celebration of south Louisiana culture slated for Friday, March 12, through Sunday, March 14, at Nicholls State University.

Festival gates will open to the public at 3 p.m. Friday, March 12, in the parking lot adjacent to John L. Guidry Stadium. Admission is $10 per day or $25 for the weekend – and free for children 11 and under. Tickets will be available at the gate. The festival will kick off again on Saturday and Sunday at 11 a.m. with the same daily admission charge.

Renowned local artists D’Jalma Garnier, Kristi Guillory, Chas Justus, Jesse Legé, Ed Poullard, Christine Balfa Powell, Dirk Powell, Kevin Wimmer and Linzay Young are on tap as full-time instructors for Louisiana Folk Roots’ upcoming Dewey Balfa Cajun and Creole Heritage Week, April 16-23, at Chicot State Park.

The free Festival International de Louisiane in Lafayette celebrates 24 years of music, art, cuisine and so much more this spring.
This year’s phenomenal line-up includes performances by Steele Pulse, Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings, King Sunny Adé, Sierra Leone’s Refugee Allstars, and Sonny Landreth.

Casting for “Moonlight and Magnolias” Comedy

There’s no business like show business, and Hollywood is abuzz in 1939. Famed producer, David O. Selznick has shut down production of his new epic, fires the director, and demands a rewrite of the script for one of the most beloved films of all times, “Gone with the Wind”.

(BATON ROUGE) July 27 — In joking reference to political rhetoric in Louisiana’s Capital City, Ballooning Foundation Director and pilot George Richard says the upcoming Aug. 7-9 balloon race is “The best use of hot air in America!” SPORTS ILLUSTRATED® calls the Baton Rouge race one of “America’s Top 25 Summer Essentials” while the National AAA dubs it a “Travel Treasure.” For this reason, the Pennington-Louisiana State Hot-Air Balloon Championship consistently averages 60,000 spectators each year.