Pat Kahle, director of Shadows-on-the-Teche, said there will be more than 50 vendors present for the arts and crafts show. Some of them have attended since the event began and some are coming for the first time.
“There are vendors from just down the street, and from quite a distance,” Kahle said. “I think everybody will find something interesting to see.”
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There will also be whimsical yard sculptures, steel dazzlers (wind-spinners), baby clothes, tables and a beeswax candle-making demonstration.
Kahle said the biannual event has averaged 1,200 to 1,300 guests.
Tickets are $3. Children 5 and under are free. Guests can upgrade to include the house-tour for the Shadow’s normal price of $7 for adults and $4 for children.
“It is a really good event,” Kahle said. “It helps support our programs. We get a lot of family groups.”
Plastic alligators also will fill the bayou Saturday with the celebration of the Southern Mutual Help Association’s annual Great Gator Race. Attendees will be able to help build “healthy, prosperous rural communities in Louisiana” by “stomping” to great music and “chomping” delicious food, cheering on one or more of 5,000 (plastic, foot-long) gators and potentially winning a variety of prizes.
There will also be a rock climbing wall and fun jumps.
Gator-racers pay $5 to sponsor a gator. The first 10 win prizes. Gator-sponsors do not have to be present to win, but ticket-holders to the raffle between 3 and 6 p.m. do. Event admission is free.
Music will be performed by “Lil Nathan” and the Zydeco Big Timers. After 3 p.m., it will be by cover band Broken MeauxJo.
The Great Gator Race begins at noon in New Iberia’s Historic District. The Arts and Crafts Show at Shadows-on-the-Teche is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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