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Familiar performers are returning to the stage for this year’s Boggy Bayou Festival.

Country music singer Charley Rivers has been selected to headline the 33rd Annual Boggy Bayou Festival in Pine Prairie.
Rivers will take the stage on Saturday night, April 8, from 10 p.m. till 12:30 a.m.

Mitch Attales is “fired up” about entertaining at this year’s Boggy Bayou Festival.
Mitch and his band, the Burn House Band, will take the stage at the festival on Friday, April 7, starting at 6 p.m.

Winners have been named in the 2017 Boggy Bayou Festival coloring contest, sponsored each year for students at Pine Prairie Elementary.

Youngsters will have some new excitement this year.
Marty the Magician will be performing two shows during this year’s Boggy Bayou Festival.

Plans are presently being finalized for our 33rd Annual Boggy Bayou Festival to be held April 6th, 7th, & 8th, 2017.

This year’s Boggy Bayou Festival carnival tickets are now on sale at Prairie Manor Nursing Home in Pine Prairie. Those who wish to take advantage of the pre-sale tickets can save $3 on each one purchased. The tickets are $15 now through April 5th and will be sold for $18 each at the festival.

She may be just a child, but when you put Raylee Jo Young in a rodeo arena, the second grader has a way of performing like a pro.

On March 30, 2017 the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office released an update regarding the death of a three-year-old boy on Rollins Road on March 23rd.

Could things be turning around financially for the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office?