Start your Mardi Gras adventure in Mobile at the Mobile Carnival Museum. The Mobile Carnival Museum highlights the history of Mardi Gras in its true birthplace - Mobile, Alabama. The museum features 14 galleries, video presentations, a pictorial hallway and an interactive float area - all in a restored historic mansion. Mobile aims for a cleaner, greener Mardi Gras. Updated: Feb. 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM CST | Mardi Gras. Civic Center news gives Mardi Gras goers more to celebrate. Updated: Feb. 25, MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — WKRG News 5 is your guide for all things Mardi Gras on the Gulf Coast. Three organizations are scheduled to parade in the News 5 area Friday. WKRG News 5 will livestream Mobile Mask is also an annual magazine and guide to Mardi Gras in south Alabama. The 2025 issue went on sale January 6. NOTE: This is the copyrighted property of Mobile Mask. MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — WKRG News 5 is your guide for all things Mardi Gras on the Gulf Coast. Multiple organizations are scheduled to parade in the News 5 area Saturday and Sunday. WKRG News 5 Mardi Gras is in full swing and three parades rolled this evening in downtown Mobile. Order of Inca and Order of Kahos parades kicked off Friday night Updated : Feb. 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM CST For Weeks, The Streets Of Downtown Mobile Are Filled With The Sights And Sounds Of Live Marching Bands, Brilliant-colored Floats And Of Course The Crowds Of Parade Goers That Is Mardi Gras In Mobile. Below Are Various Links Of Information On The Carnival Festival For Seasoned Revelers, Novice Parade Attendees And Anyone Generally Interested In The Annual Celebration. But hope and gaiety were soon revived in 1866 by a Mobilian named Joseph Stillwell Cain. Joe Cain revived Mardi Gras and mysticism. Carnival is deeply rooted in the cultural fabric of the city. Today, there are over 80 mystic societies in Mobile, with more than 38 of them parading during the 2 ½ weeks leading up to Mardi Gras Day. WPMI NBC 15 provides local news, weather forecasts, notices of events and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for Mobile and nearby towns and communities in the Mobile Bay area including, in Alabama: Mobile, Prichard, Saraland, Satsuma, Creola, Bay Minette, Spanish Fort, Daphne, Fairhope, Irvington, Theodore, Tillmans Corner, Semmes, Loxley, Robertsdale It is downtown Mobile's annual 'Lighting of the Mardi Gras Tree.' It will be from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, January 9, at Mardi Gras Park, 109 Government Street, Mobile. There will be live music from the Excelsior Band, the Jukebox Brass Band and the Blow House Brass Band, as well as games, food and activities for the whole family. MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Although most Mardi Gras parades in Mobile use one route, there are multiple routes that parade-goers should know before heading out the door. Most of the Mobile WKRG News 5 is your guide for all things Mardi Gras on the Gulf Coast. The Conde Cavaliers are scheduled to parade through downtown Mobile on Friday, Feb. 14 starting at 6:30 p.m. City of Mobile Mardi Gras 2025 Parade Schedule: Note: Use News 5’s Mobile Mardi Gras 2025 Parade Routes guide to learn about each parade’s travel path. Friday, February 14. 6:30 p.m. — Conde MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG)— A Mobile couple got married at the Historic Joe Cain home on Sunday, to celebrate their Mardi Gras love, as well as each other. “Elizabeth has always loved Joe Cain Day,” Start your Mardi Gras adventure in Mobile at the Mobile Carnival Museum. The Mobile Carnival Museum highlights the history of Mardi Gras in its true birthplace - Mobile, Alabama. The museum features 14 galleries, video presentations, a pictorial hallway and an interactive float area - all in a restored historic mansion. Saturday, February 1. 1 p.m. – Krewe de la Dauphine (Dauphin Island) Saturday, February 8. 1 p.m. – Dauphin Island People’s Parade (Dauphin Island) MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — It’s full speed ahead to Fat Tuesday, and Mobile’s 2025 Mardi Gras Ship, the USS McFaul, arrived in the Port City early Friday morning. Over 500 feet long and almo A day in the life of a Mobile bar, as the first Mardi Gras parade of the season rolls. More local news for Birmingham, Huntsville and Mobile – Start Today for $5. Alabama Life & Culture; MOBILE, Ala. - The Conde Cavaliers kicked off the 2025 Mardi Gras season in downtown Mobile Friday night. This year’s parade theme was “You Give Love a Bad Name.” This year’s parade theme Mobile Carnival poster from 1900. Floats lining up for an Order of Inca parade in 2007. Mardi Gras is the annual Carnival celebration in Mobile, Alabama.It is the oldest official Carnival celebration in the United States, started by Frenchman Nicholas Langlois in 1703 when Mobile was the capital of Louisiana.
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