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I hope you’re ready for this weekend as the Second Annual Bayou Terrebonne Boucherie brought to you by the Hache Grant Association will offer the community food, festivity, teamwork, music, and a good time!
The Boucherie will be this Saturday, March 12, in downtown Houma. Live music begins at 9:00 a.m. and runs through 10:00 p.m. with the following acts:
- DJ Doug Funnie
- No Posers
- MJ Dardar Band
- Tyron Benoit Band
- Nonc Nu & Da Wild Matous
- The Dream Junkies
- Adam Pearce and Friends
The festival celebrates the importance of community and culture. Besides the fais-do-do, they will also have a Kids Corner for the little ones that will offer face painting, games, and more! It is free to attend and open to the public! Proceeds will go toward quality of life projects in Terrebonne Parish.
The Boucherie also will host the 2022 Cajun Cup Olympics. What is this? Four-person teams will compete to win the cup by competing in the following activities: Pirogue Race, Casting Contest, Chicken Catch, Axe Throw, 20 Penny Nail Drive, and the Duck Call Contest. The day will also have a White Bean Cookoff.
Bayou Terrebonne Distillers owner and Hache Grant Association President Noah Lirette said the idea for the event came when he saw pictures of the bandstand that once stood in the Courthouse Square in Downtown Houma. He said he thought it would be amazing to rebuild.
This was during the height of COVID, so when he brought the idea to people in the Parish, it was agreed it wasn’t the time to move forward with the project just yet. Lirette said they wanted to still raise some funds when he was lent a book that depicted a traditional Boucherie which he loved the idea of. The book inspired him. He started thinking about the activities the community has available and the lack thereof. The First Annual Bayou Terrebonne Boucherie was the first community event following the lock-down of COVID. He wanted to bring together the community with a common goal, and that’s to revitalize the downtown area beginning with the old bandstand.
A traditional Boucherie stems from before refrigeration days where family and friends would get together to butcher, prepare, cook, and eat the spoils of their hunting. This brought together the community which is why Lirette thought it was a perfect way to raise funds for the betterment of Terrebonne Parish.
The organization signed an ordinance in 2021 gaining permission from the parish to build the bandstand and has been in the building permitting process. The goal for completion is for the Terrebonne Parish Bicentennial celebration in October.
The Hache Grant Association was formed to raise funds for revitalization, the first being the downtown bandstand. Lirette said the name Hache Grant was chosen because it was literally downtown. It was the first recorded instance of non-American Indian habitation in Houma. Later, Richard H. Grinage and Hubert M. Belanger (who became known as the fathers of Terrebonne) donated a portion of bayou front land to the parish on March 18, 1834 to move the parish seat to Houma from Bayou Cane. “It represents the beginning of the parish and community service,” he said,” so that’s why we named it [Hache Grant].”
Lirette said for one, they’re looking forward to hopefully some enjoyable weather, but also they are doing things bigger and better this year. This includes having five pigs versus only three last year. “We’re looking forward to a lot of good teamwork and participation with local businesses. We can’t wait to do this again [this year] and have it a little bigger,” he concluded.
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