Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
As anyone who’s lived in Louisiana knows, Mardi Gras is always a special time. Kids get a week off from school, neighborhoods are overflowing with parades, and dessert is almost always king cake ...
Is Mardi Gras for kids? Here's how to make the raucous celebration in New Orleans family friendly.
Guests tour the 300,000 square foot working warehouse where floats are made for Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans. [1] Mardi Gras World is located along the Mississippi River, next to the New Orleans Morial Convention Center. Their events venue, the River City Complex, also hosts festivals, weddings, private parties and corporate events. [2]
New Orleans goes big for Mardi Gras with festive float-filled parades, dazzling balls and other events that draw tourists from around the world, but it’s also a time for local family gatherings.
BUKU Music + Art Project is a New Orleans–based two-day music and arts festival founded in 2012 by Winter Circle Productions and held annually at Mardi Gras World. [1] [2] BUKU considers itself to be a boutique event that delivers a big festival punch without compromising its house-party vibe.
With the onset of the World Wars, Mardi Gras in Lake Charles was not celebrated as much, but was revived in the latter part of the century. This celebration begins in Lake Charles on January 6 each year. The last parade is the Krewe of Krewes Parade in downtown Lake Charles. [48] Mardi Gras in Lake Charles regularly draws 150,000 people. [49]
The family-owned business, which designs and builds floats for Mardi Gras and other festivals far beyond New Orleans, celebrates its historic ties to the city with Mardi Gras World. After repeated ...
Krewe of Muses parade on Jeudi Gras, the Thursday night prior to Mardi Gras - which members cheekily call "tHERSday" as a nod to being a women's Krewe.The parade starts in Uptown New Orleans at Magazine Street and Jefferson Avenue, then proceeds east to Napoleon Avenue where it turns left and follows Knights of Babylon and Knights of Chaos up Napoleon Avenue, turning right onto St. Charles ...