Hastings Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras Ball Returns! Featuring . Le Grand Mardi Gras Ball. Live Music Event Friday, 28th February 2025, 8:00pm to 3:00am Hastings Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras Ball Returns! After a year off, the seminal Mardi Gras Ball returns to kick off the 2025 Hastings Fat Tuesday Music Festival. EARLYBIRD TICKETS ON SALE NOW Friday 28th February 2025 8pm-3am 18+ Featuring Rioghnach Connolly and Honeyfeet Mr Wilson's Second Liners DJ sets by Justin Robertson and Jon Carter Hastings Fat Tuesday Music Festival will return in its full form in 2025. Some funding has been secured to deliver a full festival, but we still need a little extra help to allow us to keep the main festival elements free for all, including our community and school umbrella workshops, our family parade and our main music tours. Hastings Fat Tuesday Music Festival will once again deliver five days of music, mayhem and Mardi Gras across Hastings and St Leonards this February 28 to March 4. The five day town wide celebration will present over 350 free gigs, gatherings, parties and parades alongside ticketed events, with internationally acclaimed artists from across the globe appearing alongside a wealth of local bands. Le Grand Mardi Gras Ball 2025 at White Rock Theatre, 1-10 White Rock, Hastings, TN34 1, United Kingdom,Hastings, East Sussex on Fri Feb 28 2025 at 09:00 pm to Sat Mar 01 2025 at 04:00 am Le Grand Mardi Gras Ball 28th February. Hastings, TN34 3EA. Cactus Hound Bar 33 - 35 Western Rd, St Leonards, Saint Leonards-on-sea TN37 6DJ, UK. View All Around 350 free gigs are performed in the town throughout the festival, kicking off with The Grand Mardi Gras Ball, (back this year, on Friday 28th Feb 2025), there’s a fun-filled five days of musical mayhem, featuring Unplugged Saturday (where each acoustic act performs five 15 minute sets at five different venues), the Umbrella Parade on Hastings Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras Ball returns! After a year off, the seminal Mardi Gras Ball returns to kick off the 2025 Hastings Fat Tuesday Music Festival. EARLYBIRD TICKETS ON SALE NOW. Friday 28th February 2025 8pm-3am 18+ Featuring Rioghnach Connolly and Honeyfeet Mr Wilson’s Second Liners DJ sets by Justin Robertson and Jon Carter The full five days of music and mayhem launches with the Grand Mardi Gras Ball with early bird tickets (£29.50) ON SALE NOW from The White Rock Theatre. The Ball takes place on Friday 28th February 2025, with an array of musical delights, so dust off your beads and boas and get dressed to impress! Hastings Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras Ball Returns! Featuring Rioghnach Connolly and Honeyfeet Mr Wilson's Second Liners DJ sets by Justin Robertson and Jon Carter + Late night DJ set with Lemur Beats in the Studio + Best dressed competition. Hastings' favourite night of revelry returns in 2025 with an array of musical delights, so dust off your Save the date for Hastings Fat Tuesday Music Festival 2023. Friday 17th – Tuesday 21st February. We can now reveal the live line up for Le Grand Mardi Gras Ball 2023 on Friday 17th February at White Rock Theatre. The Lord works in mysterious ways. Hastings Fat Tuesday CIC is a not-for-profit organisation that delivers a year-round programme of activity to support the communities of Hastings and St Leonards. This includes the flagship Fat Tuesday Music Festival and a range of live music events and community sessions/workshops to support musicians and young people, and provide engaging HASTINGS FAT TUESDAY RETURNS IN FULL! 28th February to 4th March. The full five days of music and mayhem launches with the MARDI GRAS BALL -- EARLYBIRD TICKET ON SALE THIS FRIDAY 10am from the Le Grand Mardi Gras Ball 2025 at White Rock Theatre, 1-10 White Rock, Hastings, TN34 1, United Kingdom,Hastings, East Sussex on Fri Feb 28 2025 at 09:00 pm to Sat Mar 01 2025 at 04:00 am Le Grand Mardi Gras Ball 2025 happening at White Rock Theatre, 1-10 White Rock, Hastings, TN34 1, United Kingdom,Hastings, East Sussex on Fri Feb 28 2025 at 09:00 pm to Sat Mar 01 2025 at 04:00 am Find tickets & information for Le Grand Mardi Gras Ball 2025. happening at White Rock Theatre, Hastings, EN on Fri Feb 28 2025 at 09:00 pm. Register or Buy Tickets, Price information. Hastings Fat Tuesday music festival is the UK's largest Mardi Gras celebration which showcases Hastings' thriving music scene. It is more than one day. Hastings Fat Tuesday delivers an amazing programme of live music performance, creative music-making opportunities, and music industry skills development throughout the year. Le Grand Mardi Gras Ball lineup continues with an act you all know and love! 🎉 Don’t miss the much anticipated return of the legendary @mrwilsonssecondliners! 🎺 This New Orleans-style second line band brings their unique tribute to the glory days of Hacienda and ‘90s club culture. 🕺🎶 Early bird tickets for the ball are still Joining our festival headliners HORSE MEAT DISCO, THE FUTURE SHAPE OF SOUND and MR WILSON’S SECOND LINERS at the Mardi Gras Ball on Friday and THE MAGIC NUMBERS on Saturday are a wealth of exciting local and national talent including WILL VARLEY, BUDDHA TRIANGLE, DANNY GEORGE WILSON, ESE & THE VOODUU PEOPLE, HOT WAX, MISS MELODY and more. Hastings Fat Tuesday Music Festival will once again deliver five days of music, mayhem and Mardi Gras across Hastings and St Leonards from February 28 to March 4. The five day town wide celebration will present over 350 free gigs, gatherings, parties and parades alongside ticketed events, with internationally acclaimed artists from across the globe appearing alongside a wealth of local bands.
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