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2. Mardi Gras in New Orleans - Wikipedia

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   A decorated home in New Orleans during Mardi Gras season in 2021. On November 17, 2020, Mayor Cantrell's communications director Beau Tidwell announced that the city would prohibit parades during Carnival season in 2021.

3. Mardi Gras is coming. Here's what to know about New Orleans ...

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   Carnival celebrations — parties, fancy masked balls and other markers of the season — may start on Jan. 6, but the big buildup to Mardi Gras happens in New Orleans in the final 12 days of the ...

4. Celebrating Mardi Gras: What to know about the colorful ...

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   Here’s what travelers should know about celebrating Mardi Gras in New Orleans: What are the dates for Mardi Gras in 2024? Mardi Gras season begins on Jan. 6, the Epiphany, but its duration ...

5. Mardi Gras - Wikipedia

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   Knights of Revelry parade down Royal Street in Mobile during the 2010 Mardi Gras season. In 1723, the capital of Louisiana was moved to New Orleans, founded in 1718. [33] The first Mardi Gras parade held in New Orleans is recorded to have taken place in 1833 with Bernard de Marigny funding the first organized parade, tableau, and ball. The ...

6. The History of Mardis Gras in 10 Facts - AOL

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   A New Orleans city ordinance prohibits the wearing of masks on any other day, and on Mardi Gras masks must be removed by 6:00 p.m. Getty Each Krewe hurls party favors into the crowds.

7. Mardi Gras in the United States - Wikipedia

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   A night parade on St. Charles Avenue during the 2012 Mardi Gras season. In 1991, the New Orleans city council passed an ordinance that required social organizations, including Mardi Gras Krewes, to certify publicly that they did not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, to obtain parade permits and other ...

8. The History of Mardi Gras Is Just as Fun and Exciting as the ...

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   The very first American Mardi Gras celebration took place in March 1699 after two French settlers landed near present-day New Orleans and brought their traditions with them. The French colonists ...

9. Krewe - Wikipedia

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   The krewe system then spread from Mobile and New Orleans to other towns and cities with French Catholic heritage, including those with their own Mardi Gras traditions (such as the Courir de Mardi Gras). Following those of New Orleans, Louisiana's next-oldest krewes are mostly based near Lafayette, which crowned its first Rex-style monarch, King ...