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BEAUMONT — The Downtown Beaumont Cultural Arts District,

Pour09 and the City of Beaumont will present the Crawfish, Art & Music Fest from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on April 27, at the Downtown Event Center, 700 Crockett St., Beaumont.

The admission-free festival will include crawfish and other food vendors, beverages, arts and crafts vendors, live music and an art competition to be judged by the public. Music performers will include Horace Trahan & Ossun Express, Step Rideau and the Zydeco Outlaws, Nesha Cortez, Ethan Osborne, Donovan Bourque, Zydeco Cheaux and Aces Blues Band, along with hosts Supa the MC and Erik Tee and sounds by DJ Ackinbadd.

“This event has something for everyone,” said Jacoby “Rose Gold” Dumas, president of the DBCAD board of directors. “Musical performances will span genres from Zydeco to southern soul to country to blues, and the food selection, coordinated by the exceptional team at Pour09, will offer plenty of delicious choices, especially the signature crawfish. For artists, the festival is not only a

place to receive recognition for your work through a community-voted art competition, but also a great way to connect with the public and make sales as a vendor.”

Winners for the art competition will be first, second and third place with awards of $500, $300 and $100 respectively. Artists who would like to enter the competition must submit a prospectus (guidelines and rules), which can be found online at downtownbeaumont.org/crawfishmusicfest. This year, all artists must be at least 18 years old to participate.

Artists and nonfood vendors interested in reserving a vendor booth must submit a vendor form found online at downtownbeaumont.org/crawfishmusicfest.

For more information, call DBCAD at 409-239-5983.

The mission of the Downtown Beaumont Cultural Arts District is to promote the cultural and economic development of historic Downtown Beaumont by serving as a unified and structural approach to the organization of art related events in the district, by providing aid to artists both local and visiting and by securing funding for artists, art events and conservation efforts.