New Orleans Mardi Gras - Revision history

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 [[Category:Louisiana]]
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 [[Category:Religion]]
 {{Outline}}
 [[WikiPedia:New_Orleans_Mardi_Gras]]

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 While some visitors think of Mardi Gras as a "Girls Gone Wild" event, most of the city's Mardi Gras celebration is kid-friendly family fun. Stay away from the rowdies on Bourbon Street; catch the parades Uptown on Saint Charles Avenue anywhere above Lee Circle up to Napoleon Avenue (Note: on Mardi Gras Day, Zulu parades only on the portion of the route from Jackson Avenue down). Most kids love the excitement of catching the beads; for safety just make sure they don't try to run up too close to the floats. On Lundi Gras (the Monday before Mardi Gras), the festivities in Waldenberg Park (along the Mississippi by the upper French Quarter just below Canal Street) includes a children's stage. On Mardi Gras dress the family in matching costumes to be thrown extra beads and have extra fun.
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 == Parades ==
-[[Image:Rex Butterly King Napoleon Avenue New Orleans 2012.jpg|right|thumb|The Rex parade is one of Mardi Gras' most famous and beautiful]]
+[[Image:Rex Butterly King Napoleon Avenue New Orleans 2012.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Rex parade is one of Mardi Gras' most famous and beautiful]]
 Mardi Gras parades are a big attraction. Many locals have their favorites and by not following the crowds, you can often get a better perspective on the Big Easy.
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 Pick up the Mardi Gras Guide magazine, or consult the newspapers for parade schedules and routes. Note that many of the smaller parades, marching krewes, neighborhood pageants, Mardi Gras Indians, etc are usually not listed in these schedules.
-The majoritiy of the parades follow a standard route, starting [[New Orleans/Uptown|Uptown]] at Napoleon Avenue and going down St. Charles Avenue to the [[New Orleans/Central Business District|Central Business District]] then on to Canal Street at the upper border of the [[New Orleans/French Quarter|French Quarter]].
+The majority of the parades follow a standard route, starting [[New Orleans/Uptown|Uptown]] at Napoleon Avenue and going down St. Charles Avenue to the [[New Orleans/Central Business District|Central Business District]] then on to Canal Street at the upper border of the [[New Orleans/French Quarter|French Quarter]].
 There are sizable parades two weekends before Mardi Gras, then every night starting the Wednesday before Mardi Gras.  There are also several parades in a row during the day the Saturday and Sunday before Mardi Gras. The parades on Mardi Gras Day are in the morning and mid day.
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 === Other parades of interest ===
-The nights of the week leading up to Mardi Gras, in addition to the days on the weekend before Mardi Gras, have numerous parades. In addition to the parades on the standard routes, interesting off-beat parades include:
+The nights of the week leading up to Mardi Gras, in addition to the days on the weekend before Mardi Gras, have numerous parades. Pretty much every parade can be somebody's favorite for one reason or another.  Some of the most popular include '''Muses''', an all women's krewe known for it's beautiful creative parade on the Thursday night before Mardi Gras; '''Krewe d'Etat''' Friday night before Mardi Gras is known for its clever biting satire. '''Thoth''' is a Sunday day parade with an Ancient Egyptian style; it's route includes a stretch of Magazine Street above Napoleon Avenue not used for parades on other days. '''Proteus''', which precedes Orpheus Lundi Gras Night, is the second oldest parading krewe, giving a sample of a 19th century style night parade in the 21st century.
 * '''Krewe du Vieux''' - 3 Saturdays before Mardi Gras, the earliest parade in the New Orleans Carnival calendar is noted for satirical and off color floats and costumes. Parades around the French Quarter and [[New Orleans/Faubourg Marigny|Faubourg Marigny]] neighborhoods.
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 === Small krewes ===
-There are dozens of small neighborhood krewes and walking clubs, including:
+There are dozens of small neighborhood krewes and walking clubs. Events better known to locals than visitors include:
 ====Before Mardi Gras Day====
-* '''Jefferson City Buzzards "Practice Parade"''' usually Sunday afternoon, 3 weeks before Mardi Gras. The Buzzards have their main parade on Mardi Gras Day (listed below), but a few weeks before you can might be lucky enough to see this group in bizarre costumes followed by a brass band roving from bar to bar in Uptown New Orleans, on the lake side of Magazine Street Uptown between Napoleon and Henry Clay Avenues.
+* '''Jefferson City Buzzards "Practice Parade"''' usually Sunday afternoon, 3 weeks before Mardi Gras. The Buzzards Carnival walking club have their main parade on Mardi Gras Day (listed below), but a few weeks before you can might be lucky enough to see this group in bizarre costumes followed by a brass band roving from bar to bar in [[New Orleans/Uptown|Uptown New Orleans]], on the lake side of Magazine Street between Napoleon and Henry Clay Avenues.
 * '''Krewe of OAK''' - the Friday night before Mardi Gras Day in the [[New Orleans/Carrollton|Carrollton]] neighborhood, starting and ending at the Maple Leaf Bar.
 * '''Krewe of Dreux''' - one of the largest alternative Mardi Gras celebrations, out in [[New Orleans/Gentilly|Gentilly]] on the Saturday afternoon before Mardi Gras.
 * '''Red Beans & Rice Parade''' rolls through the Marigny and [[New Orleans/Treme|Treme]] on Lundi Gras (the Monday before Mardi Gras Day).

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 == Parades ==
 Mardi Gras parades are a big attraction. Many locals have their favorites and by not following the crowds, you can often get a better perspective on the Big Easy.
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 There are sizable parades two weekends before Mardi Gras, then every night starting the Wednesday before Mardi Gras.  There are also several parades in a row during the day the Saturday and Sunday before Mardi Gras. The parades on Mardi Gras Day are in the morning and mid day.
 === Biggest parades ===

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 ====Mardi Gras Day====
 * '''Society of Saint Anne''' - Marching club through the [[New Orleans/Bywater|Bywater]], Marigny, and French Quarter neighborhoods on Mardi Gras morning, with some of the most elaborate and creative costumes seen.
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 * '''Jefferson City Buzzards''' - the oldest traditional walking krewe; men from a working class neighborhood of Uptown have been drinking lots of beer and giving out flowers to pretty gals in exchange for a kiss while parading downtown every year since 1890.
 * '''Pete Fountain's Half Fast Marching Club''' headed by the city's most famous Dixieland clarinetist who leads his band on a small float, the Half Fast wind through uptown down to the Quarter on Mardi Gras.
 == Other events ==

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 There are dozens of small neighborhood krewes and walking clubs, including:
 * '''Society of Saint Anne''' - Marching club through the [[New Orleans/Bywater|Bywater]], Marigny, and French Quarter neighborhoods on Mardi Gras morning, with some of the most elaborate and creative costumes seen.
 * '''Krewe of Kosmic Debris''' - one of the most informal krewes; if you play a portable musical instrument you can show up in costume and jam on Dixieland standards as the Kosmic Debris roams from bar to bar in the French Quarter, starting on Frenchmen Street at noon Mardi Gras Day.
-* '''The Completely Mystick Krewe of Chartreuse''' marches on Fat Tuesday. Headed by the strangest folk in living history, do not miss the parade named in honor of the liquor made from over 130 plants and herbs by Carthusian Monks. In the morning, search for the green and gold globe and crux banner on St Charles Avenue as it heads toward the French Quarter, or find us later in the Quarter proper. This will not be in other tour books and is so drunken and raucous you will run home crying if you're not careful. You have been warned.
+* '''The Completely Mystick Krewe of Chartreuse''' marches on Fat Tuesday. Headed by the strangest folk in living history, do not miss the parade named in honor of the liquor made from over 130 plants and herbs by Carthusian Monks. In the morning, search for the green and gold globe and crux banner on St Charles Avenue as it heads toward the French Quarter, or find us later in the Quarter proper. So drunken and raucous you will run home crying if you're not careful. You have been warned.
-* '''KOE''' - the first of the walking krewes organized on the Internet. Found in the Quarter on Mardi Gras, originally "Krewe of Elvis";  10th Anniversary in 2008
+* '''KOE''' - the first of the walking krewes organized on the Internet. Found in the Quarter on Mardi Gras, originally "Krewe of Elvis"
 * '''Jefferson City Buzzards''' - the oldest traditional walking krewe; men from a working class neighborhood of Uptown have been drinking lots of beer and giving out flowers to pretty gals in exchange for a kiss while parading downtown every year since 1890.
 * '''Pete Fountain's Half Fast Marching Club''' headed by the city's most famous Dixieland clarinetist who leads his band on a small float, the Half Fast wind through uptown down to the Quarter on Mardi Gras.

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 == Mardi Gras dates ==
-* 2011 - 8 March
 * 2012 - 21 February
 * 2013 - 12 February