Shreveport, Louisiana

=== Events ===
[[File:Shreveport September 2015 017 (Louisiana State Fair Grounds).jpg|thumb|right|Louisiana State Fair Grounds in 2015]]
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* ArtBreak Festival, largest annual student arts festival in the South since 1984
* [[Barksdale Air Force Base]] Air Show, held annually since 1933
* Cinco De Mayo Fiesta, held annually since 1998
* [[Highland Jazz & Blues Festival]], held annually the second Saturday of November since 2003
* [[Holiday in Dixie]], annual springtime festival, began 1949
* [[Independence Bowl]], held annually close to New Year's since 1976
* Independence Day Festival, held annually on the 4th of July since 2009
* Let the Good Times Roll Festival, annual [[Juneteenth]] festival since 1986
* [[Louisiana Film Prize]], short film competition and film festival
* [[Mardi Gras]] parades
* Mudbug Madness, annual celebration of [[Procambarus clarkii|crawfish]], held each May since 1984
* Red River Balloon Rally, annual summer festival since 2016
* [[Red River Revel]], annual autumn arts festival which began in 1976; the largest outdoor festival in northern Louisiana
* The State Fair of Louisiana, held annually each autumn since 1906
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====Mardi Gras====
[[Mardi Gras]] celebrations in Shreveport date to the mid‑19th century when [[krewe]]s and parades were organized along the lines of those of New Orleans. Mardi Gras in Shreveport did not survive the cancellations caused by [[World War I]]. Attempts to revive it in the 1920s were unsuccessful, and the last Carnival celebrations in Shreveport for decades were held in 1927. Mardi Gras in Shreveport was revived beginning in 1984 with the organization of the Krewe of Apollo. The Krewes of Gemini, Centaur, Aesclepius, Highland, Sobek, Harambee, and others, followed during the next decade and a half. The first krewe{{clarify|date=January 2017}} to revive parading was Gemini in 1989. Today, Mardi Gras is again an important part of the cultural life of the Shreveport-Bossier metropolitan area.<ref>Brock, Eric J.: "Mardi Gras Grows, But Fizzled Earlier," ''The Times''. 1996-02-17</ref>