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Click on the Mardi Gras krewes below for further information about the krewe and to see their usual route for each parade. Please note: Events and activities are subject to change without notice. Stay tuned to the site for further info. 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 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 Below is the complete list of parades and events kicking off on Twelfth Night and culminating on Mardi Gras Day, March 4, 2025, with each parade description including The 17th Krewe de Jeanne d'Arc parades on Twelfth Night in New Orleans, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. Founded in 2008, Krewe de Jeanne d'Arc is an annual walking parade honoring the city's unofficial 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. Mardi Gras is the last and "biggest day of celebration," according to Mardi Gras New Orleans. Carnival celebrations begin on "Twelfth Night," also known as the Epiphany, which falls on Monday 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 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 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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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: 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. 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
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