2026 Mardi Gras Parade Schedule!🎉 All events: swlamardigras.com Oak Park Elementary Mardi Gras Parade 📅 Friday, February 13 ⏰ Parade starts at 12:30 PM 🗺️ Route: Oak Park Elementary → 4th Avenue → 13th Street → 5th Avenue → 18th Street Merchants’ Parade 📅 Friday, February 13 ⏰ Parade starts at 7:00 PM 🗺️ Route: Lake Charles Event Center → West Pine Street → Ryan Street → Sale Road Children’s Mardi Gras Stroll 📅 Saturday, February 14 ⏰ Parade starts at 9:00 AM 🗺️ Route: Millennium Park (No

Multiple people, including a 6-year-old child, were injured when shots rang out during a Mardi Gras parade today in Clinton in East Feliciana Parish #news #clinton More in link in comments. | Unfiltered With Kiran

Mardi Gras parade nights are just the best. The music, the floats, the kids scrambling for beads, everybody posted up in lawn chairs like it’s a major sporting event. It’s loud, it’s colorful, and it’s such a Coast tradition. You can always tell how much work the krewes put into it — those floats don’t build themselves. So I’ve gotta ask… what krewe are y’all in? 👑 Or are you just there for the beads and the king cake? | Mississippi Gulf Coast National Heritage Area

In this clip from the 1976 film "The Mardi Gras Indians," jazz great Danny Barker highlights the creativity, extensive handiwork, and community participation that goes into creating an Indian costume. Barker is remembered primarily as a banjo/guitar player and elder statesman of jazz, but he was also a committed writer and prolific storyteller. Produced by Terry Flettrich and Patricia Chandler, "The Mardi Gras Indians" features footage shot by Jules Cahn, a photographer and filmmaker whose work