Live music and other entertainment are also on the roster. NOLA on Tap Beer Fest: Taste more than 400 beers at this one-day event that brings together Louisiana’s brewing scene with national microbrews and specialty beer producers.The festival has been officially canceled for 2020. The local burlesque scene invites troupes and individual performers from around the world to take part in this annual event, which includes several shows and pageants throughout the weekend. New Orleans Burlesque Festival: Burlesque has long been a wildly popular form of entertainment in New Orleans, combining tantalizing dances with bawdy humor, costumes, and elegant music.This event has been postponed until 2021. This festival celebrates the local delicacy with music, drink, and other entertainment at the Natchitoches Parish Fairgrounds. Natchitoches Meat Pie Festival: This small city in Central Louisiana, a four-hour drive from New Orleans, was the first French settlement in the Louisiana territory and is known for a lot of things, but the most delicious among these are its tasty, spicy meat pies.Parades, live music, drag shows, and plenty more adults-only fun take place over the course of Labor Day weekend each year. Southern Decadence: Sometimes referred to as “gay Mardi Gras” (though Mardi Gras itself is perfectly gay-friendly), this enormous gay pride celebration turns the French Quarter into a giant, festive street party.
