Mardi Gras is coming. Here’s what to know about New Orleans’ parades and parties

Published February 9, 2024 2:01 PM

By KEVIN McGILL
Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Carnival season 2024 is entering its final days in New Orleans with big parades on the city’s main thoroughfares and smaller, offbeat walking clubs strolling the old French Quarter. Among the Friday processions is a group known as the krewe of “Bosom Buddies & Breast Friends,” whose members hand out hand-decorated bras as they walk the French Quarter’s narrow streets. More traditional parades with masked riders on huge, colorful floats roll Friday night and throughout the weekend. It all comes to an end in on Mardi Gras — or Fat Tuesday — a final day of celebration before Lent.

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