Save the Date for the Third Annual Musicians Fete at the West Baton Rouge Museum Offered in Conjunction with Baton Rouge Blues Fest

Port Allen – Join the West Baton Rouge Museum is partnership with Baton Rouge Blues Festival and Foundation on Sunday, April 12, 2026 from Noon – 5pm for the third annual Musicians Fete. This pre-event for the Baton Rouge Blues Fest is free and open to the public for musicians, industry professionals, and music lovers alike.

Festivities will kick off at 12 noon with a free jambalaya lunch followed by guest presenters leading talks and a round table discussion, and opportunities to meet with industry professionals and vendors. Contacts for potential venues for gigs, business, and marketing information will be available.

In addition to the networking and resource fair, Musicians Fete will also feature a chance for musicians to do what they do best – music! Leaders of the museum’s musical programs will be on hand to lead singing circles and jams. Kent Louque, who leads the museum’s Old Time Jam, will lead an acoustic session, and Lazarro Nettles and Dee Davis, who make up the museum’s jouse band, will lead the electric jam. Syreeta Neal, host of our monthly Sunday Chante singing circle and a part of the famous Neal family, will lead a vocal session. The event will conclude with karaoke in the museum’s Juke Joint.

Musicians Fete is FREE and open to the public.