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Each Mardi Gras Parade has a unique history and theme. Search . Home; What's New; Media; Tuesday Mar 4 2025 Mardi Gras . Metairie; Krewe of Argus 11:00am view map ; Here's everything you need to know about Mardi Gras. When is Mardi Gras 2025? Mardi Gras Carnival marks a festive season that begins on Jan. 6 and is called "Twelfth Night," also known as the The 2025 Mardi Gras season will end on Fat Tuesday, March 4, offering roughly two months to celebrate. Sunday night also marked the socially acceptable time to begin eating King Cake. When is Mardi Gras 2025? The official start of Carnival Season is marked by Twelfth Night, which is Jan. 6 this year. This year, Mardi Gras Day falls on March 4. Marking the last day of the In 2025, Mardi Gras falls on Tuesday, March 4. Carnival marks a festive season that begins on Jan. 6 and is called "Twelfth Night," also known as the Epiphany, and ends the day before Ash Now that Christmas is over, most folks in Louisiana are going to start focusing on their other favorite holiday, Mardi Gras. The Mardi Gras season will be here before you know it and it all gets underway in early January with the 12th night celebration. Mardi Gras is late this year with Mardi Gras Day taking place on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 To answer the more traditional questions, however, Mardi Gras season starts on the twelfth night after Christmas, which Jan. 5 in 2025. Mardi Gras Day is more popularly known as Fat Tuesday and The beginning of Carnival season always takes place on Jan. 6, the 12th night after Christmas. But the actual Mardi Gras holiday depends on Easter and the moon. Mardi Gras is celebrated the day Jan. 6, also known as the Twelfth Night, marks the start of nearly two months of parades, parties, and events throughout the state. “It’s actually 12 days after Christmas. It signifies the Epiphany when the wise men actually arrived,” Tammy Ryan, 2024/2025 Mardi Gras Southwest Louisiana President, said. The season begins on Jan. 6, the 12th day after Christmas, and continues until Mardi Gras, which is the final day of feasting, drinking and revelry before Ash Wednesday and the fasting associated with Lent, the Christian season of preparation for Easter. Tonight’s 12th Night Celebration is canceled due to winter weather, but not even a winter’s worst can stop the Mardi Gras Board of Directors from fulfilling their duties! The Board will meet virtually today to cast their crucial vote on launching eight weeks of exciting festivities that make up the 2025 Soulard Mardi Gras season 2025 Pensacola’s Mardi 12th Night Celebration. As we gear up for the 2025 Mardi Gras season, it’s hard to believe that it’s already been 14 incredible years since the inception of the Pensacola Mardi Gras Kick-Off Celebration. Algiers Mardi Gras Parade and Festival. The Algiers Mardi Gras Parade and Festival will be back on Saturday, February 1 at New Orleans Federal City in Algiers. Entertainment will include Brass-A-Holics, Amanda Shaw, The U.S. Marine Reserve Jazz Band and more. The parade starts at 9 a.m. and the Festival begins at 10 a.m. In places where Carnival is not practiced, Twelfth Night is just another winter evening, but in New Orleans, the night is alive with subtle native rituals that are still spared the gaudiness and encroaching commercialism found as the season reaches its end on Mardi Gras. Twelfth Night - twelve days after Christmas is the legendary beginning of the Mardi Gras season prior to Lent. Join in the tradition of Mardi Gras's first event as royalty of last year in their grand costumes and give their symbolic goodbyes to the thousands who turn out to see the grand fanfare of costumes and greet the new season. Each year, deep in the heart of winter, the Mardi Gras season lights a spark as it begins in January with the Twelfth Night Dance Party and Celebration. On this enchanted night, the King and Queen of Asheville’s new Mardi Gras season will be crowned. All Asheville Mardi Gras supporting members are welcome to take a slice of King Cake. MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — As the sun set Sunday night, the 2025 Mardi Gras season officially began. Twelfth Night represents the 12 days after Christmas, wrapping up the holiday season and allowing The 46th Mardi Gras season in Soulard officially kicks off on Monday with the annual 12th Night celebration. Soulard’s signature events, 12 between 12th Night and Fat Tuesday, generate more than $20 million annually for the St. Louis regional economy and make St. Louis one of the largest Mardi Gras outposts in the world. New in 2025: As we gear up for the 2025 Mardi Gras season, it’s hard to believe that it’s already been 14 incredible years since the inception of the Pensacola Mardi Gras Kick-Off Celebration. What started as a humble idea has blossomed into one of the most anticipated events on Pensacola’s social calendar, and we couldn’t be prouder of how far we The start of the Mardi Gras season in New Orleans begins with Twelfth Night, a day that has its origins in Christian tradition and was celebrated heavily in the Middle Ages.
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