Mardi Gras in Louisiana
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What is Mardi Gras?
Mardi Gras or Shrove Tuesday is a Roman Catholic celebration which begins on January 6th (Twelfth Night) and continues until midnight of Mardi Gras Day. It is a period of revelry before the Christian time of fasting and prayer called, Lent. The date of Mardi Gras depends on when Easter is, but it is always on a Tuesday and falls between February 3rd and March 9th, 46 days before Easter.
At midnight on Fat Tuesday, all the revelers are moved out of the French Quarter and the solemn Ash Wednesday begins. Catholics all over the world go to mass to receive their "ashes" in the sign of a cross on their foreheads. The ashes are the burned, blessed palms from Palm Sunday.
Future Mardi Gras Dates
February 24, 2009February 16, 2010
March 8, 2011
February 21, 2012
February 12, 2013
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February 17, 2015
February 9, 2016
February 28, 2017
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March 5, 2019
February 25, 2020
February 16, 2021
New Orleans Mardi Gras Duel
What do you think of Mardi Gras in New Orleans?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byIt's great fun - love the parades and the people.
TheGreenerMe says:
I love New Orleans, it's a really distinct city in the U.S. unlike any other.
Posted January 04, 2009
bob robins says:
Love the music, parades & friendly attitude of New Orleanians
Posted January 01, 2009
That heathen festival in the Big Easy - balderdash!
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A Little History
The New Orleans Mardi Gras celebration includes parties, parades, balls, and many other festivities. Social clubs called, Krewes, pay for and organize the parades and other activities. The most famous Krewes include: Comus, the oldest, which was founded in 1857, but no longer parades and Rex, the king of Carnival, which was founded in 1872. Rex selected the official colors of Mardi Gras (purple, gold and green) in 1872. Then in 1892, Rex assisgned a meaning to each. Purple represents justice, green stands for faith and gold signifies power.
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Customs and Tradition of the Celebration
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Every serious Mardi Gras participant needs to show their colors and what better way than with this purple, gold and green flag with the crown.
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Mardi Gras According to Wiki
The terms "Mardi Gras" (mär`d? grä) and "Mardi Gras season", in English, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, ending on the day before Ash Wednesday. From the French term "Mardi Gras" (literally "Fat Tuesday"), has come to mean the whole period of activity related to those events, beyond just the single day, often called Mardi Gras Day or Fat Tuesday.
In Australia, Mardi Gras season: "NSW: Mardi Gras still alive
and well, say organisers", encyclopedia.com, 2003, webpage:
ency-596.
In London, Mardi Gras season: "Paul's Pastry Shop kneads a
ton of dough in Picayune", Allbusiness.com, 2008, webpage:
Allbusiness-35.
In New Orleans, Mardi Gras season: "Mardi Gras in New
Orleans | Metro.co.uk", Metro.co.uk, 2009, webpage:
Metro.co.uk-2315.
In Mobile, Mardi Gras season: "New Orleans has competition
for Mardi Gras", USATODAY.com, February 2006, webpage:
USATODAY-com-mardi.
In San Diego, Mardi Gras season: "sandiego.com - Mardi
Gras in San Diego: FAQ's", SanDiego.com, 2008, webpage:
[http://www.sandiego.com/seasonal/mardi-gras/mardi-gras-in-san-diego:-faq's/ SanDiego.com-SD].
In Texas, Mardi Gras season: "Let's Celebrate: Mardi
Gras 2008", Southernbyways.com, January 2008, webpage:
southernbyways-com-TX.
The season can be designated by the year, as in "Mardi Gras 2008".
The time varies from city to city, as some traditions consider Mardi Gras as the Carnival period between Epiphany or Twelfth Night and Ash Wednesday. Others treat the final three-day period as being Mardi Gras.The Season of Lent In Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras events begin in November, followed by mystic society balls on Thanksgiving,
"Mobile Carnival Association, 1927",
MardiGrasDigest.com, 2006, webpage:
mardigrasdigest-Mobile.
then New Year's Eve, formerly with parades on New Year's Day, followed by parades and balls in January & February, celebrating up to midnight before Ash Wednesday.
Other cities most famous for their Mardi Gras celebrations include Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Sydney, Australia and New Orleans, Louisiana. Many other places have important Mardi Gras celebrations as well.
Carnival is an important celebration in most of Europe (except in Ireland and the United Kingdom where the festival is called "shrovetide" ending on Shrove Tuesday, and pancakes are the tradition) and also in many parts of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Mardi Gras Music
The Best
Carnival Time by Al Johnson (1960) - Recorded by a local New Orleans artist is, in our opinion, the all time Mardi Gras Classic Tune.Mardi Gras Mambo by The Hawketts (1954) - Art Neville and other Booker T. Washington classmates recorded it at Cosimo's Recording Studio in the French Quarter in 1954. It was arranged by local radio DJ, "Jack the Cat".
Go to the Mardi Gras by Professor Longhair (1959), with Dr. John on the guitar and Earl King whistling, gets more plaing time than any other song during Carnival Season.
Street Parade by Earl King, another famous New Orleans musician was recorded in 1972.
Second Line by Stop, Inc. was first recorded by the Skyliners in 1962, but the master was lost. It was recreated by Stop, Inc in 1974.
New Suit by the Wild Magnolias (1970) was recorded in Jazz City, Camp Street, New Orleans. The "New Suit" is the elaborate costume that each member of the various tribes of Mardi Gras Indians designs and constructs each year, to be worn on Mardi Gras Day. See this post from Home of the Groove for the history of the African American Mardi Gras Indians.
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Songs Which Have a Similar Beat to Mardi Gras Music
Don't You Just Know It by Huey "Piano" Smith and the Clowns. This song which features a great New Orleans pianist, with Bobby Marchan as lead vocalist was recorded in 1958.Oh Poo Pa Doo by Jessie Hill was recorded by this local artist in 1958.
Iki, Iko was first recorded by the New Orleans group, Sugarboy and the Cane Cutters in 1953. Then by the Dixie Cups in 1963. The 1972 version by Dr. John Follows Sugarboy's original format.
Electric Boogie by Marcia Griffin, a Baton Rouge artist, was adopted by the Krewe of Bamboozer's (of the Spanish Town Mardi Gras Parade)as their favorite dance.
Hey Pocky A-Way by The Meters (L. Nocentelli/A. Neville/J. Modeliste/G. Porter, Jr.) from Rejuvenation, Reprise, 1974
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New Orleans Mardi Gras Links
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