Come have a sweet ole time at the West Baton Rouge Museum’s SugarFest on Sunday, October 6, 2024 from 11AM to 4PM. This 29th annual sweet celebration of the sugar cane harvest has been growing strong since 1995. 

SugarFest provides visitors of all ages with a free opportunity to learn about local culture, music and history. There will be a variety of traditional folk art and occupational craft demonstrations, a peek inside museum exhibits and historic buildings, cane cutting and grinding demonstrations, cane syrup boiling, and live music. Genres featured include Blues, Dixieland Jazz, Folk, Cajun, and Bluegrass. Some of the demonstrations include praline candy making, blacksmithing, bousillage making, wood working with antique hand tools, spinning, and much more. There will be old-fashioned pastimes for children to enjoy and a Café Français area where only French is spoken and lively games of Bourré will be played. Food and drink will be available for purchase, and artists will be selling their wares. Of course, there will be lots of sugary treats, fresh chewing cane samples, and a sweets contest. For those age 21 and over, there will be a rum tasting and discussion on how this spirit is made from Louisiana’s sweetest cash crop.

SugarFest is FREE and open to the public and is supported in part by Alma Plantation, LLC. and a Celebration Grant from the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area Foundation