The Crawdad Festival, LLC was established in 2022. Searching for a place to call home, In 2023, The Crawdad Festival triumphantly launched “The Crawdad Festival” in Isleton, California, attracting an astounding crowd of over 70,000 participants. This inaugural event quickly established itself as the largest premier crawfish festival in Northern California in nearly two decades. Bolstered by this resounding success, The Crawdad Festival, LLC made the strategic decision to relocate the festival to Cal Expo in Sacramento, California.