Event in Jennings, LA by The City of Jennings on Saturday, March 1 2025 with 239 people interested and 59 people going. Jennings Mardi Gras Event in Jennings, LA by The City of Jennings on Saturday, March 1 2025 with 103 people interested and 26 people going. © 2025 Jeff Davis Parish | All Rights Reserved | Website Design by Firefly Marketing The City of Jennings will have it’s first ever Mardi Gras Ball on February 1 and their Parade will be on March 1. The Town of Elton’s Courir de Mardi Gras will be held on March 1. Mardi Gras day will be celebrated on March 4 and the Grand Marais Dance will be hosted then. Find tickets & information for Jennings Mardi Gras. happening at 154 n main street, Jennings, LA, United States, Louisiana 70546, Jennings, LA on Sat, 01 Mar, 2025 at 04:00 pm CST. Happy Mardi Gras The City of Jennings!We hope everyone has a happy and safe Mardi Gras! 🎭 💚💜💛 Next year’s Jennings Mardi Gras will be March 1, 2025! JENNINGS, La. (KPLC) - Jennings kicked off Mardi Gras celebrations with a chicken run and costume contest. Teaching children about Cajun culture is what the Cajun French Music Association wants to bring to the community of Jennings. This is the organization’s first time hosting a Courir de Mardi The annual Grand Marais Mardi Gras dance will be held on March 4, 2025 at the Friends Supporting Friends Event Center (Old VFW) on Highway 90 West in Jennings, LA. Doors open at 6PM. $10 cover at the door for 16 and over. Free chicken and sausage gumbo will be provided. 2025 Mardi Gras Parade Schedule. Krewe of Athena Parade. March 2, 2025, 5:30 PM. East Bank Parade. More Details; Krewe of Centurions Parade. March 3, 2025, 6:00 PM. The annual Grand Marais Mardi Gras dance will be held on March 4, 2025 at the Friends Supporting Friends Event Center (Old VFW) on Highway 90 West in Jennings, LA. Doors open at 6PM. $10 cover at the door for 16 and over. On Mardi Gras in southwest Louisiana, some people will take part in the Cajun French tradition of the Courir de Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday Run. These rural processions, with links to rituals from medieval France, feature masked and costumed riders, with stops where participants perform and beg for goods. Mardi Gras in Southwest Louisiana is a family-friendly festival and even has an entire day devoted to kids. Children’s Day, a free event, combines Mardi Gras fun with culture, music and learning. Mardi Gras Children’s Parade - The 2025 Mardi Gras Children’s Parade at 3:30 p.m. is a family-friendly highlight of the Mardi Gras season! As BATON ROUGE — Carnival is longer than usual this year, running eight weeks and two days. By tradition, king cake sales begin on Epiphany, Jan. 6, and run through Mardi Gras, which is March 4 Mardi Gras Parade Schedule Author: Jefferson Parish Keywords: DAGbK3NJ3Bw,BABW9oaTP7o Created Date: 1/7/2025 6:01:06 PM Jennings Mardi Gras Parade 2024 Parade Line Up is at 3PM, Parade starts at 4PM. If you are registered for the run you do not need to register for the parade also, if you are just riding in the parade and not the run before the parade, please complete the registration and pay the registration fee. Find tickets & information for Miss Courir de Mardi Gras Pageant + Vendors Market. happening at 2310 N Sherman St, Jennings, LA 70546-3830, United States, Jennings, LA on Sun, 23 Feb, 2025 at 09:00 am CST. 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. © 2025 Jeff Davis Parish | All Rights Reserved | Website Design by Firefly Marketing Shaquille O'Neal hosted Shaq's Fun House at Mardi Gras World during the Super Bowl LIX festivities. Photo: Skip Bolen/Getty Images. The basketball phenom and LSU graduate is the celebrity monarch in Bacchus. The krewe tells us they retrofitted the throne to fit Shaq's famously large frame. 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, this season. Some like a later season because that gives them more time to prepare for it. It also gives Mardi Gras Krewe more In the U.S., the origin of Mardi Gras is a somewhat debated topic. The city of Mobile claims that it was the first city recorded to have the oldest organized Mardi Gras, dating back to 1703.
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