Boucherie Festival Association

We are so proud of our Teen Queen for helping to make an impact on our community! 🐷👑

💥We are excited to announce that Sorrento will soon have our own Library Book House! We hope you can join us for the Grand Opening for the Little Free Library Book House at the Sorrento Community Center/Sorrento Community Park on Monday, July 15th at 9am!

📕Crafts and activities after the ribbon cutting
📘If you have any old books or new books you'd like to donate to get us started, you can bring them to the event
📗The idea of the Library Book House is to "take a book" and "share a book"
📙For more information on Little Free Library, visit their website, www.littlefreelibrary.org.

More information to come, but for now.......save the date! The Boucherie & Balloons Festival Pageant will be held on Saturday November 2nd, 2024 at the Sorrento Community Center. Division ages 0-24 & Ms. 🐷👑

https://www.wafb.com/sponsored/boucherie-balloon-festival/boucherie-fesitval-celebrates-champions/

The Boucherie Fesitval Celebrates the 2023 Champions! The 2023 Boucherie and Balloon Festival has come and gone, and this year’s event was a huge success!

Congratulations to our 2023 cook-off champions!

Cracklin Champion: Snook Trabeau
Runner Up: Jimmy Bercegeay

Jambalaya Champion: Curt Parent
Runner Up: Buster Melancon

Special thank you to our newest sponsor, Vacherie Fuel for powering the hot air balloons for this year's festival!

Congratulations to our 2023 Jambalaya Finalists:
Brett "Hoss Fly" Reine
Buster Melancon
Carlos Braud
Clint Broussard
Cody Braud
Curly Leveron
Curt Parent
Daren Braud
Doty Gautreau
Jake "Possum" Avrill
Kade Lanoux
Robert "Hoss" Reine

Congratulations to our 2023 Cracklin' Finalists:
Joey Cornett
Nicky Veazey
Camille Trabeau
Stump Marchand
Jacob Mayer
Koby Thacker
Rene Quebedeaux
Michelle Aime
Rick Clouatre
Jimmy Bercegeay
Neil Bourgeois
Ronnie Leblanc

Thank you to all of our former champions who competed today in the cracklin and jambalaya contests. Your hard work today is greatly appreciated!

Now announcing Our 2023 Champ of Champs:
Cracklin : Snook Trabeau
Jambalaya : Justin Courville

Once again, we'd like to say a major THANK YOU to all of our wonderful sponsors. We're grateful for each and every one of them supporting us and our causes. We couldn't pull this festival off without them. With that being said- we are officially open and ready for the 2023 Boucherie and Balloon Festival to begin so y'all get over here & let's make this weekend one for the books! 🙌🎡🐷

Y’all make sure to come out and support our small business vendors this weekend!

Here's a map overview for the Boucherie and Balloon Festival this weekend. Please note there is only one entrance for general parking (left), and one entrance for handicap parking (right).

***This map is subject to change if needed for weather.

A few updates have been made to our 2023 Schedule of Events- specifically the entertainment and announcement times. We would appreciate it greatly if you could help us out and share it with your friends so everyone has the correct info for this weekends festivities! 🎡🎟🐷

***THIS WEEKEND***

OCTOBER 20-22, 2023

Come out to the 2023 Boucherie & Balloon Festival at 9690 Airline Highway in Sorrento, La! We’ve got it all!

💥 hot air balloons
💥 jambalaya and cracklin' cookoffs
💥 live music
💥 vendor market
💥 carnival rides
💥 cochon de lait

For more information, visit our website boucheriefestival.com.

Thanks to our 2023 Piglet Sponsor, Garrison Construction!

Did you know that the Miss Boucherie Queen will be selling tickets for our 50/50 raffle at the festival? One lucky winner will split the cash prize with the Louisiana Lion's Club to benefit special needs children. Be on the lookout for our Boucherie Royalty in crowns and sashes for your chance to win! 🤩

We appreciate all of our 2023 Porky Sponsors!

Important info for tethered balloon rides at this year's festival:

Huge thank you to our 2023 Bacon Sponsors! 🥓🐷🥓

The Boucherie Festival is just around the corner and we're looking for volunteers! We're in need of assistance in our kitchen area, at our merch and Lions Club booths, and out in the hot air balloon field. There are shifts available all weekend so grab a friend and come volunteer while listening to good music & getting to sample some of the cooking going on! You can head to the link below to sign up. ⤵️ ⤵️ ⤵️

Boucherie & Balloons 2023 You don't want to miss this.   Have a great time VOLUNTEERING!! Are you looking for a family friendly place to volunteer? The Boucherie & Balloon Festival would love to have you!! They are looking f

Carnival ride wristbands will be available at the festival for $25 per person, per session. 🎢🎟🎡

Friday night will be one session, Saturday will be split into two sessions, and Sunday will be one session.

Show of hands- who's ready to see the hot air balloons at this year's festival?! 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️

REMINDER-
Jambalaya and cracklin cook's meeting tonight at 6:45pm!

Let's hear it for our awesome 2023 Pork Chop Sponsors! 📣

Huge thank you to our 2023 Cracklin Sponsors- all of whom have sponsored our festival before. We appreciate your continued support! 🐷

We would like to give a shoutout to our 2023 Cochon de Lait Sponsors. We couldn't pull off the festival you all know and love without them, so THANK YOU to Shell , WAFB Channel 9, and Ascension Parish Tourism Commission ! 👏👏👏

DON'T FORGET-
The jambalaya and cracklin cook's meeting is next Thursday, 10/5/23.

Boucherie and Balloon Festival band lineup for Sunday (10/22)!

Aaron Foret Band - 12:00pm-2:30pm
The Mojoes - 3:30pm-6:00pm