State Senator Ed Kennedy was at the Southeast Asian Water Festival in Lowell on Saturday, August 19. The Lowell Southeast Asian Water Festival, Inc. is dedicated to the preservation, protection and sharing of cultural heritages of the Southeast Asian Americans in the Greater Lowell area of Massachusetts.
In 1997, the first Lowell Southeast Asian Water Festival took place to celebrate the culture of Lowell’s many Khmer citizens. In 2002, representatives of Lowell’s Khmer, Thai, Vietnamese and Laotian communities incorporated the Lowell Southeast Asian Water Festival, Inc as a non-profit corporation. The festival takes place every year along the Merrimack River in Lowell on the third Saturday in August and is attended by thousands of people from around the country and the world who come to Lowell to celebrate water as it is celebrated in Southeast Asia. They come for the blessings, food, crafts, performances and the races.
