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Mobile Mardi Gras 101: A primer on all things Carnival Mobile's first Mardi Gras organization, the Mobile Carnival Association, was formed in the mid-1800s and reorganized in 1893; the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association began as the Colored Carnival Association in 1939. Each association selects a king and queen and royal court.
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The Music Of Mardi Gras: History You Can Dance To The traditions of Mardi Gras are a huge part of New Orleans' cultural identity. They've been evolving since the mid-1700s, and for the past century or so, the music of the Crescent City has provided the thread that ties all these traditions together.
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Mardi Gras in Shreveport, Louisiana Visitors contemplating a trip to Louisiana for Mardi Gras usually think of New Orleans first. The northern parts of the state began celebrating carnival in earnest in the late 1980s and in the 1990s with family-oriented parades. Fifteen organized marching clubs known as krewes participate in the city's festivities.
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Mardi Gras History This occurred on Fat Tuesday. New Orleans was established in 1718 by Bienville. By the 1730s, Mardi Gras was celebrated openly in New Orleans, but not with the parades we know today.
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- Revelers on St. Charles Avenue, 2007. The holiday of Mardi Gras is celebrated in Southern Louisiana. Celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and through Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday (the start of lent in the Catholic tradition).
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Mobile Mardi Gras 101: A primer on all things Carnival The most visible monarchs are the kings and queens of the Mobile Carnival Association, the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association, and the Prichard Mardi Gras Association. However, most parading societies have one or two monarchs, and many of the non-parading societies also have kings and/or queens.
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History of Mardi Gras By Arthur Hardy The first black Mardi Gras organization, the Original Illinois Club, was launched in 1894. Two years later, Les Mysterieuses, Carnival's first female group, was founded. The final year of the Century saw snow in New Orleans on Fat Tuesday.
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Mobile Holds First Mardi Gras Mobile, Alabama Is the Home of the First Official U.S. Mardi Gras. Mobile's Mardi Gras King-King Felix 2011. Most people assume that New Orleans is the ancestral home of Mardi Gras, but history indicates that the first “official” Mardi Gras celebration in the New World was held in 1703 in Mobile Alabama.
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NOLA History: Mardi Gras, From the Beginning The men from Mobile were familiar with the “secret societies” there, like the Cowbellians, so the group formed their own New Orleans organization. They named it the Mystic Krewe of Comus, and held a tightly-organized, two-float night parade on Mardi Gras, 1857. After their parade, the Krewe held a private bal masque. Concept sketch for a float, Krewe of Proteus, 1890s (Courtesy Louisiana State Museum) That structure did indeed save Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Comus’ parade became a popular way to celebrate Mardi Gras during and after the Civil War. Interest in holding other parades grew in the late 1860s, so that by 1872, two new organizations took to the streets.
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NOLA History: Mardi Gras, From the Beginning By 1830, public celebration on Mardi Gras became an organized parade in Mobile, Alabama. People in New Orleans took to the streets, but in a more disorderly fashion. Beginning in 1837, New Orleans had parades, but they were rowdy, almost riotous, to the point where civic leaders in the 1850s were seriously considering banning street celebrations.
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- According to historians, Mardi Gras dates back thousands of years to pagan celebrations of spring and fertility, including the raucous Roman festivals of Saturnalia and Lupercalia.
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- In that year, Mardi Gras occurred on the fifth of March, the day after the parade of the Fire Department. I appeared on the streets of New Orleans … in Mardi Gras costume and was (on) the special car of No. 13. My experience on that occasion was so pleasant that I determined on my return home that Mobile should have its own Mardi Gras celebration, and so announced in the Mobile Daily Tribune of that period.
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A history of Mardi Gras America's first Mardi Gras The explorers eventually found the mouth of the Mississippi River on March 3, 1699, Mardi Gras of that year. They made camp a few miles upriver, named the spot Point d'Mardi Gras and partook in a spontaneous party.
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- THE HISTORY OF MARDI GRAS The season of Mardi Gras begins on the Christian holiday of Epiphany and is rooted in ancient spring fertility festivals. It most likely began with a 3,500-year-old Greek spring fertility celebration.
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Mobile's Mardi Gras Mardi Gras celebrations first came to what is now Alabama with the early French explorers, who were led by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. He recorded the first observance of Mardi Gras in Mobile in his journal in 1699. Men in the camp marked the occasion with feasts, dancing, and a night of masked revelry.
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Mardi Gras 2013: 10 Things To Know About New Orleansâ Famous Carnival As a result, the debauchery and excess of Carnival season became a prelude to the 40 days of penance between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. Mardi Gras Began In Mobile, Ala. Mardi Gras spread from Rome across Europe where it then crossed the oceans to the colonies of the New World. Historians believe the first American Mardi Gras occurred in 1703, one year after French explorer Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville established Fort Louis de la Louisiane in what is now Mobile, Ala.
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Mardi Gras In 1703 French settlers in Mobile established the first organized Mardi Gras celebration tradition in what was to become the United States. The first informal mystic society, or krewe, was formed in Mobile in 1711, the Boeuf Gras Society. By 1720, Biloxi had been made capital of Louisiana.
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Mardi Gras Floats Through History Mobile is Mardi Gras’ birthplace, and it began as a demure French-Catholic tradition. However, its first official Carnival association began in 1711 with the Boeuf Gras Society (Fatted Ox Society) in Mobile. They paraded through the streets with a huge bull’s head pushed along on wheels by 16 men.
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Mardi Gras in the United States This was on March 3, 1699, Mardi Gras day, so in honor of this holiday, Iberville named the spot Point du Mardi Gras (French: Mardi Gras Point) and called the small tributary Bayou Mardi Gras. Bienville went on to found Mobile, Alabama in 1702 as the first capital of French Louisiana.
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Mardi Gras History The origins of Mardi Gras can be traced to medieval Europe, passing through Rome and Venice in the 17th and 18th centuries to the French House of the Bourbons. From here, the traditional revelry of Boeuf Gras, or fatted calf, followed France to her colonies.
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History of Mardi Gras By Arthur Hardy . The celebration of Mardi Gras came to North America from Paris, where it had been celebrated since the Middle Ages. In 1699, French explorer Iberville and his men explored the Mississippi River from the Gulf of Mexico.
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Downtown In downtown Mobile, brunch is a sport, shopping an art and socializing a must. Mobile is home to America's Original Mardi Gras and each year, it hosts the oldest organized Carnival celebration in the United States, right in the heart of downtown. The festival began to be celebrated in the first decade of the 18th century, during the city's French colonial period.
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- Founded in 2002, the Mardi Gras Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 that raises money to provide Community Improvement Grants to the Soulard Neighborhood, which has hosted Soulard Mardi Gras since 1980, and to downtown St. Louis.
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US Mardi Gras The largest and one of the oldest Mardi Gras festivals is held in New Orleans, with the second-largest event being the St Louis Mardi Gras held in the historic Soulard neighborhoods.
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Mardi Gras History And Facts: The Real Meaning Behind These 5 âFat Tuesdayâ Traditions It wasn’t until the beads were made of plastic that throwing them really became a staple of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Rex, King of Carnival, waves to his subjects as he parades down St. Charles Avenue on Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans. Reuters. Rex, The King of Carnival. Every year in New Orleans, a king is crowned.
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Mardi Gras: The early days of Carnival in New Orleans The 1700s. In the 1700s Mardi Gras was first observed in New Orleans - and early celebrations had a decidedly evil and raucous element, according to Robert Tallant's book Mardi Gras.. Things got pretty bad and Mardi Gras celebrations were curtailed between 1806 and 1823.