The Northeast Louisiana Celtic Festival is kicking off another year of heritage, music and entertainment from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday at Forsythe Park.

Enoch Doyle Jeter, owner of Enoch’s Pub, has been managing the festival for all seven years of its existence.

“The festival is a big time, fun picnic in the park with great music and events for everyone,” said Jeter.

Jeter said the festival is a time for educating the community on the Celtic heritage of northeast Louisiana. He has been celebrating that heritage for 32 years at Enoch’s Pub.

He says he is eager for students to join the celebration.

“It’s free, which is right in the price range for college students,” said Jeter.

The musical headliners for the festival are bands Murder the Stout and Needfire. Singer Máirtín de Cógáin will also perform.

Cógáin will also be doing a question and answer session after the movie “The Wind That Shakes the Barley,” which is being shown as part of the ULM film series. The movie, staring Cillian Murphy and Pádraic Delaney, also features Cógáin as “Sean.”

The movie is one of many events leading up to the festival and will show at 6 p.m. Tuesday in 100 Stubbs Hall.

Other activies leading up to the festival involve Cógáin speaking to some local schools and outlying schools. They will also be doing some readings about Celtic heritage, which adds to the overall point of these events: sharing the heritage of Celtic Northeast Louisiana.