The Louisiana Shrimp Festival and Shrimp Aid is back for its second year this weekend at the Broadside event venue with the familiar template of live music, food vendors and family activities but also with a few twists that get down to its whole reason for being.

You’re encouraged to attend wearing shrimp boots, not for any potentially muddy conditions, but in solidarity with the shrimpers for whom the festival is organized. You also might want to bring an ice chest because there will be shrimpers in the parking lot, eager to load you up for home cooking.

Fishermen and their families will be on hand to talk about their piece of Louisiana’s food and fishing heritage. There’s a shrimp peel-and-eat competition (on Sunday), which will be as much about competitive peeling as eating, and e

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