The Foire is sometimes considered the biggest French festival held in Canada outside the province of Quebec[citation needed].
"Brayonne" is the feminine form of the French word "Brayon" which is the name given to residents of Edmundston and the surrounding Madawaska County area.
Many local dishes are served during the festival such as the ploye, which is a pancake type mix of water and buckwheat flour.
Other attractions include an outdoor mass celebrating the French culture's loyalty to the Catholic faith, a large parade, car shows, sporting competitions, and an arts and crafts flea market.
Today, more than 20 years later, the Party du Parking is one of the most enduring and successful events of the Foire Brayonne.
Hundreds of people from all walks of life come to this event simply to experience it, as it has a large word-of-mouth and cult following.
Every year thousands of people gather on the Friday evening of the Foire in the parking lot in downtown Edmundston.
Very few, if any, arrests are made and almost everyone attending the Party du Parking are well behaved, despite the amount of alcohol people tend to consume on that night.
The Foire Brayonne is sometimes criticized by the Acadian people as not promoting the culture as a vital part of French New Brunswick, as most of them feel that the term Brayons is but a legend.
The Edmundston area, despite having a large population of Acadian ancestry, has always been a separate culture from the rest of French New Brunswick.