Mardi Gras is a huge celebration right across the US, and nowhere more so than in Louisiana, where New Orleans provides the main focus of events.
Parade season 2012 schedule:
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17th
Divine Protectors of Endangered Pleasures or DIVA French Quarter 1:30 p.m.
Knights of Hermes Uptown 6:00 p.m.
d'Etat- Uptown, 6:00 p.m.
Krewe of Morpheus Uptown 7:00 p.m.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18th
Iris - Uptown, 11:00 a.m.
Tucks - Uptown, 12:00 p.m.
Endymion - Mid City, 4:15 p.m.
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 19th
Okeanos - Uptown, 11:00 a.m.
Mid-City - Uptown, 11:45 p.m.
Thoth - Uptown, 12:00 a.m.
Bacchus- Uptown, 5:15 p.m.
LUNDI GRAS, FEBRUARY 20TH
Proteus- Uptown, 5:15 p.m.
Orpheus - Uptown, 6:00 p.m.
Lundi Gras Celebration
MARDI GRAS, FEBRUARY 21st
Zulu- Uptown, 8:00 a.m.
Rex - Uptown, 10:00 a.m.
Elks Orleans - Uptown, 11:30 a.m.
Crescent City - Uptown, follows Elks
New Orleans Mardi Gras Louisiana, is a Carnival celebration well-known throughout the world. The New Orleans Carnival season, with roots in preparing for the start of the Christian season of Lent, starts after Twelfth Night, on Epiphany. It is a season of parades, balls (some of them masquerade balls), and king cake parties. It has traditionally been part of the winter social season; at one time "coming out" parties for young women at débutante balls were timed for this season.
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