Festival Site Map
A smorgasbord of family friendly food and beverages will be available for purchase in the Louisiana State Capitol and throughout the festival site. Cooking demonstrations and musical entertainment happen throughout the day on Spanish Town Road
Food & Drink Concessions
Family friendly food and beverages are available for purchase in the House Dining Room in the Capitol and on Spanish Town Road.
Spanish Town Road Café
10 AM - 5 PM
Spanish Town Road, west of North 4th Street
The Louisiana Book Festival Café offers a variety of delicious foods and just across Third Street is the A. Z. Young Park where you can relax and enjoy your refreshments at café seating while listening to local singers and musicians perform.
Louisiana Book Festival Beverage Booth
• Serving Coca-Cola products and water
Fil Asian Kitchen
• Serving shrimp or chicken on a stick, shrimp poboy, shrimp wrapped in bacon,
and fresh squeezed lemonade
House of Representatives Dining Room (Located inside the State Capitol)
• Serving hot lunch specials, burgers, po-boys and sandwiches, and gourmet salads
KL Catering
• Serving sautéed shrimp poboys on wheat, shrimp on large green salad with homemade
dressings, shrimp corn soup in a bread bowl and New Orleans bread pudding with rum sauce
Krazy Kajun Catering
• Serving hamburgers, fried catfish, french fries, chicken tenders, pulled pork sandwiches,
chicken and sausage gumbo and red beans and rice
Lil Taste of Louisiana
• Serving funnel cakes, 9 flavors of soft serve ice cream and 11 flavors of snowballs,
including two that are sugar free.
Papa John's Pizza
• Serving pizza by the slice and drinks
Wally Taillon
• Serving pork and sausage jambalaya
Entertainment Stage
9 AM - 7:30 PM
A. Z. Young Park, west of Spanish Town Road
9 AM – 10 AM
EBRP School System's Talented Music Program
Featuring original music from student led bands
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Rio Luminoso
Rio Luminoso transports lovers and others to romantic points along the Seine in Paris, the Tango Halls of Buenos Aries, the tropical breeze of the French Antilles, Louis Armstrong's Old New Orleans, with brief stops in Brazil, and the dry, dusty heartbeak of the Texas Mexican border.
Appearance made possible by LSU Press
NOON – 1 PM
John Lisi
New Orleans' blues musician John Lisi in tribute to Butch Hornsby.
Appearance made possible by LSU Press
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Preservation Hall Jazz Trio
Classic New Orleans Jazz
Appearance made possible by LSU Press
3 PM – 4 PM
Chris LeBlanc
Southern Blues Rock
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Rick Kelley
Hits of the 50s, 60s and 70s
(Both Fiction and Nonfiction)
Appearance made possible by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana
5:45 PM – 6 PM
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
A special screening of William Joyce's film for booklovers of all ages. Inspired in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, "Morris Lessmore" is a story of people who devote their lives to books and books who return the favor.
6:15 PM – 7:30 PM
Ole War Skule Live: Music from the Acclaimed Documentary on LSU Football
Featuring film clips from Ole War Skule, the new documentary about LSU football, interspersed with live music from the film's soundtrack.