2007-08-23 13:16:17 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ United States ➔ New Orleans
January 6 - February 5, 2008
The official beginning of the Mardi Gras season is Jan 6, which is called Twelfth Night (12 days after Christmas). On that cold night, a krewe called Phunny Phorty Phellows has their drunken streetcar parade down St. Charles Ave. Most of the big parades start two Fridays before Mardi Gras Day. From this point on, parades will happen everyday until Fat Tuesday.
2007-08-26 10:28:04 · answer #1 · answered by traveler 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mardi Gras 2008 is Feb. 5; it usually falls in Feb., but the date varies every year due to the Catholic influence and Easter date moving. Mardi Gras is ONE DAY, the climax of the ENTIRE Carnival season in New Orleans, which officially begins every year on Jan. 6, Twelfth Night. The parades in Orleans Parish start about two weeks prior to Fat Tuesday and continue almost every day or night until the end of the day on Fat Tuesday.
2007-08-25 06:22:48 · answer #2 · answered by nolajazzyguide 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mardi Gra means Fat Tuesday
look on a calender and find religous holiday Ash Wednesday usually in February... the tuesday before is mardi gra
2007-08-23 13:41:32 · answer #3 · answered by Tommiecat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mardi Gras will continuously be Mardi Gras to me. Im from Baton Rouge, l. a. && i like dressing up, taking place there with my associates , putting on bourbon highway and getting beverages. I dont think of i'm going to flow this 3 hundred and sixty 5 days because of the fact of all the killings ....which isn't something new... yet i actually can say Mardi Gras in New Orleans is the wonderful.. only be careful :) !!! LOL who cares if there fat ugglies down there ... that's totaly untrue... only flow and revel in your self :) !
2016-12-12 10:47:34 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mardi Gras Day will be celebrated Feb 5 this upcoming season. it varies every years, 40 days before easter sunday .mardi gras day is the last day of the party, the parades usually starts three weeks or two weeks before mardi gras day. most people come down the friday before mardi gras day and stay until that weds. which is horrible travel day.
2007-08-24 17:30:41 · answer #5 · answered by JellyBean Bri 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You mean Mardi Gras?
2007-08-23 13:25:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's Mardi Gras and it's celebrated on Feb 5, 2008 this year. It varies every year.
Laissez les bons temps rouler!!!
Let the good times roll!!
2007-08-23 13:21:10 · answer #7 · answered by MadameZ 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
the day before ash wednesday which marks the beginning of lent ( 40 days before easter)
hence the name mardi gras which translated to fat tuesday_
2007-08-23 13:20:23 · answer #8 · answered by lil ol me 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The week before Lent...Ends with "Fat Tuesday" the day before Ash Wednesday.
2007-08-23 13:22:01 · answer #9 · answered by Bob W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually in February - right before Lent.
2007-08-23 13:18:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋