Shrimp & Petroleum Festival — Attraction in Morgan City

The Shrimp and Petroleum Festival isn't just the oldest or most celebrated festival in Louisiana, it's the best festival in the state! What's at the heart of this appeal, what's its secret sauce? There is a regional hospitality exhibited in Morgan City that the locals exhibit and travelers absolutly love. Once exposed, visiters often become infatuated with the crazy town and people of Morgan City. It only 4 square miles, but it is so densely populated it still has a "big" town feel. For the adventurous traveller, festival goers, and locals, the City offers a small towns safety, with big city fun. You get to experience the best parts of a New Orleans style celebration, that silly over the top NOLA sense of crowd engagment with music , food faimly and friends; but you get to do it in a safe environment. So, if your looking to escape the mass marketed world for a truly unique experience, something really different the Shrimp and Petroleum Festival is where...

This used to be one of the best events of the year, the carnival has went down over the years. I grew up on a carnival and “we” used to play the Shrimp & Petroleum Festival, what we used to bring in there and the equipment that was there this year was a let down. Several pieces of equipment did not operate the way it was designed or was not running at all. I personally know the Mitchell’s, they are good people and have a quality show, I just don’t understand… I want to make sure everyone understands, I’m not rating the carnival only the whole festival atmosphere was just not what it used to be, I miss...

MET MY "SOUL MATE" IN 1975, MY HUSBAND IN 1976, MY BABY'S DADDY IN 1975, 1978, & 1980 ! & NOW HE"S THE PAW - PAW OF ( 5 ) GRANDCHILDREN IN 2018 ! WE ARE TRULY BLESSED! I THANK "GOD" THE SHRIMP FESTIVAL WAS IN TOWN, NOW WE BRING OUR KIDS & GRANDKIDS AS A YEARLY TRADITIONAL GET TOGETHER!!!! SO TO ALL OUR FRIENDS & FAMILY , " HOPE TO SEE Y'ALL THERE!!! HAVE FUN, & PLEASE BE SAFE!!!!!!! JENELLE M. B. R....