If you’re looking for a renaissance faire with Cajun and Creole sensibilities, look no further than Ville Platte.
Actually, stop at a 100-acre field near Ville Platte, in the village of Chataignier in Evangeline Parish. This site, an imagined crossroads of 17th and 18th century Acadiana where French, Spanish, Acadian, Creole and indigenous people roamed, is home to the Acadiana Renaissance Festival — a place where culture and imagination collide.
Philip Frey, an interpretive ranger at the Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site in St. Martinville, helped found the event in 2022. Knowing that no ren faire is complete without a pirate troupe — and that pirates are historically accurate for that period of Louisiana’s history — he created his own pirate band called “Under the Black” to help launch the faire.
“It’s a lot of fun. There’s something so heartwarming about a bunch of nerds pulling together in the same direction,” said Frey…