Once a year, the small community of Bridge City, Louisiana, welcomes locals and visitors to the Bridge City Gumbo Festival. Since the early 1970s, the festival has taken place on the second full…

Sometimes referred to as the Patron Saint of Frenchmen Street and local style icon “Uncle” Lionel Batiste was a patriarch of the famed Treme Brass Band and one of the so-called “Benchmen of…