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Gretna Heritage Festival

United States of America

Gretna Heritage Festival is a culture festival in Gretna, Louisiana. The festival offers food, arts & crafts, rides & games, and music. The festival started in 1994 (1994) as a small community event.

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Gretna Heritage Festival is a culture festival in Gretna, Louisiana.

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02 · Where & name
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Gretna Heritage Festival is a culture festival in Gretna, Louisiana.

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Gretna Heritage Festival is a culture festival in Gretna, Louisiana. The festival offers food, arts & crafts, rides & games, and music.

The festival started in 1994 (1994) as a small community event. It has since grown to one of the largest festivals in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Prominent acts have included Travis Tritt, The Beach Boys, Hunter Hayes, Charlie Daniels, Blue Öyster Cult, Joe Diffie, David Allan Coe, Chicago, Brooks & Dunn, Bonerama, Theresa Andersson, and Ricky Van Shelton. The festival was canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Gretna Heritage Festival”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.

Gretna Heritage Festival is culture festival in Gretna, Louisiana, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 1

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