Berwick's Lighthouse Festival gets underway Thursday

The Berwick Lighthouse Festival is on the weekend fun schedule for the ninth year, with a few changes forced by circumstances.
But one circumstance, the ongoing drought, won’t prevent the festival’s fireworks display Saturday night.
The festival opens officially with a 6 p.m. ribbon-cutting Thursday and will run through Sunday.
Some festival events will be moved to accommodate the rehabilitation work on the La. 182 bridge. Among them: The carnival games will be moved to First Street near The Old Building, said Colleen Askew, one of the festival organizers.
The music stage will also be moved.
The Cypress Club Car Show area is being expanded to make room for what is expected to be a display of 80 vehicles, Askew said.
What had been the festival’s gumbo cook=off is now the Best of the Basin Cook-Off with an expanded menu 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday.
“Whatever you can catch from the Basin is what you can cook,” Askew said.
The announcement last week that the festival fireworks display will go on at 9 p.m. Saturday followed the partial lifting of the burn ban in St. Mary Parish.
“I’m thrilled about it,” Askew said.
The festival schedule:
Thursday
—Carnival opens ($25 bracelets)
—6 p.m. Ribbon-cutting
—6:15 p.m. Kickoff Bike Ride
—8-10 p.m. Bike Ride After Party
Friday
—10 a.m. Berwick Heritage Museum
5-11 p.m. Vendors open
—5 p.m. Carnival opens ($25 bracelets)
Saturday
—8 a.m.-2 p.m. Cypress Car Club Show
—9 a.m. Berwick Heritage Museum
—10 a.m.-4 p.m. Best of the Basin Cook-Off
—10 a.m. Vendors open
—Noon Carnival opens ($25 bracelets)
—9 p.m. Fireworks on the River
Sunday
—8 p..m Mass on the River Front
—9 a.m. Berwick Heritage Museum
—9 a.m.-3 p.m. Vendors open
—1 p.m. Golf Cart Parade rolls
—Noon Carnival opens ($25 bracelets(
Music Lineup
Thursday
(Food Truck Court)
—7:30-9:30 p.m. Payton Dinger
Friday
(Muisic stage)
—6:30-9:30 p.m. Cliff Hillebran
—9-11 p.m. Yeah You Right
Saturday
(Music stage)
—11 a.m.-1 p.m. Krossover
—1:30-3:30 p.m. Lowdown
—4-6 p.m. Geno Delafose
—6:30-8:30 p.m. Aaron Foret
—9:30-11:30 p.m. Chee-Weez
Sunday
(Music stage)
—Noon-2 p.m. Soul shine
—2-4:30 p.m. Chase Tyler
—5-8 p.m. Junior Lacrosse