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(Note: Check out the video here and watch the crowd as well as the musicians.)
HOUMA — Two years ago, Steve Eckert drove from Pittsburgh to Houma to attend a festival where Tab Benoit, one of his favorite musicians, was performing.
It was then, at Voice of the Wetlands, that Eckert began to learn about the threat coastal erosion poses to south Louisiana.
“We’re getting educated about the wetlands mostly through the music,” Eckert said. “It’s a better cause than most.”
The three-day extravaganza of music, food and fun is meant to celebrate and promote the culture and people affected by coastal land loss in south Louisiana and rally support for the coast across the country.
“This is a cause everyone here should believe in,” said Benoit, who started the festival more than six years ago to raise awareness of coastal land loss. “One of the most important ways to do that is to bring people from out of state down here and show them how beautiful it is.”
On Saturday afternoon, couples, families and children — many donning purple and gold for the evening’s highly touted football game between LSU and the University of Florida — stood along the front lawn of the Southdown Plantation House.
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