Knott's Scary Farm · 2026
September 17 – October 31, 2026 · Calico Mine Stage
A percussive, early New Orleans Fête Gède–inspired celebration written and directed by Rovin Jay for Knott's Scary Farm — a journey into the realm of the Vodun Loa, Baron Samedi. The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans is our guide through primal rhythms that reawaken memories deeply embedded in our souls, as spirits dance, manipulate fire, and fly over our heads.
Your life has ended, but the party has just begun.
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The Teaser
The Concept
A Fête Gède–Inspired Celebration
Fête Gède is the feast of the dead — the celebration of the Gede, the Loa who keep the threshold between the living and the ancestors. Bayou's Edge draws its inspiration from that feast: a welcome to the other side that opens in ritual and builds, inevitably, into a party for the dead.
The World
Ritual to Rave
A candlelit cemetery — part Congo Square, part St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — beneath oaks draped in Spanish moss. The box tombs are not set dressing but instruments: when the Gede stomp across them, the cemetery itself becomes the rhythm section, and the night builds from solemn ritual to a celebration for the dead.
The Spirits
The Loa
Voodoo Queen of New Orleans
Marie Laveau
Our guide through the night, leading the newly arrived across the threshold.
Lord of the Cemetery
Baron Samedi
The trickster lord of the dead — equal parts charm and menace, and the one who throws the party.
The First Spectacle
Maman Brigitte
Baron's wife, revealed as a living altar with fire in each hand.
Gatekeeper of the Crossroads
Papa Legba
Gatekeeper of the crossroads, whose hand opens the gate to all that follows.
Spirits of the Cemetery
The Gede
The irreverent family of Loa who govern death and the crossroads — and the cemetery's living rhythm section.
Creative Team
Credits
Voodoo: Bayou's Edge · Knott's Scary Farm
Writer / Director · 2026
Rovin Jay
Choreographer
Sonya Lanet Randall
Production Stage Manager
Kellie Hagemann
Stage
Calico Mine Stage
Run
September 17 – October 31, 2026
In development · Photos to follow opening night