Listen: " Mardi Gras Mambo " by the Hawketts ( 1955 ).

I loved the city and I particularly loved the gaiety and spirit of Mardi Gras.

Tomorrow Mardi Gras opens officially.

The opening track, "' Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum ', includes many references to parades in Mardi Gras in New Orleans, where participants are masked, and " determined to go all the way " of the parade route, in spite of being intoxicated.

The wearing of costumes has become an important part of such holidays and festivals as Mardi Gras and Halloween ( see Halloween costume for more information ), and ( to a lesser extent ) people may also wear costumes in conjunction with other holidays, such as Christmas and Easter.

Mardi Gras costumes usually take the form of jesters and other fantasy characters, while Halloween costumes traditionally take the form of supernatural creatures such as ghosts, vampires, pop culture icons and angels.

This day, the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday when Lent begins, is also known as Mardi Gras, a French phrase which translates as " Fat Tuesday " to mark the last consumption of eggs and dairy before Lent begins.

The Krewe of Orpheus parades on St. Charles Avenue and Canal Street in New Orleans on Lundi Gras ( Fat Monday ) — the day before Mardi Gras ( Fat Tuesday ).

The event has earned its name as the Mardi Gras of the Mountains.

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* He was Grand Marshal of the Krewe of Endymion Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans on February 21, 2009 and was accompanied by The Chee-Weez, a local area cover band.

* Mardi Gras ( February 3 to March 9 in regular years, February 4 to March 9 in leap years )

* Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Gras – 47 days before Easter.

These parties are sometimes associated with holiday events, such as Halloween and Mardi Gras.

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New Orleans musicians such as Bartholomew and Longhair incorporated Cuban instruments, as well as the clave pattern and related two-celled figures in songs such as " Carnival Day ," ( Bartholomew 1949 ) and " Mardi Gras In New Orleans " ( Longhair 1949 ).

In his " Mardi Gras in New Orleans ," the pianist employs the 2-3 clave onbeat / offbeat motif in a rumba boogie " guajeo " ( below ).

Piano excerpt from the rumba boogie " Mardi Gras in New Orleans " ( 1949 ) by Professor Longhair.

After three consecutive years of school bands, singer and comedienne Carol Channing led a tribute to Mardi Gras.

Actress and singer Carol Channing was featured during the halftime show that paid tribute to Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

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Lombardo wrote the words and music with John Jacob Loeb for Guy Lombardo's stage productions of Arabian Nights ( 1954, 1955 ), Paradise Island ( 1961, 1962 ), and Mardi Gras ( 1965, 1966 ) at Jones Beach, New York.

The halftime show, featuring singers and dancers, was a " Mardi Gras Festival ".

The band's final album, Mardi Gras, was released in April 1972, featuring songs written by Fogerty, Cook, and Clifford and a cover of " Hello Mary Lou " ( a song Gene Pitney originally wrote for Ricky Nelson.

* The HBO series Treme features one tribe of Mardi Gras Indians in one of the major plot lines weaving through the series, featuring preparations, the parades as well as strained relationships with the police department.

Other blockbusters have been Arts orientated and have included the Faberge exhibition, the Treasures of Palestine exhibition, the " Strictly Mardi Gras " exhibition, the Christian Dior exhibition, the Audrey Hepburn exhibition, Kylie: an exhibition-a tribute to Kylie Minogue and her contribution to music, stage and screen, featuring many of her costumes.

In recent years the number of events hosted by Ohakune has increased, with both the Big Mountain Short Film Festival and Ohakune Mountain Mardi Gras featuring on the calendar.

Mardi is Melville's first pure fiction work ( while featuring fictional narrators, his previous novels were heavily autobiographical ).

Rosenberg notes Taji, in " Mardi ", and the protagonist in " Pierre " " think they are saving young " maidens in distress " ( Yillah and Isabel ) out of the purest of reasons but both are also conscious of a lurking sexual motive.

The group notion started in 1976, when the four brothers of the Neville family, Art ( born 1937 ), Charles ( b. 1938 ), Aaron ( b. 1941 ), and Cyril ( b. 1948 ) got together to take part in the recording session of The Wild Tchoupitoulas, a Mardi Gras Indian group led by their uncle Big Chief Jolly.

Over a period of three weeks many activities take place including the Fisher's Ghost Fun Run, the Fisher's Ghost Art Award and the Street Party which was formerly known as the " Mardi Gras.

* March 8 – Shrove Tuesday ( Mardi Gras ), end of Carnival season

* February – In America, Mardi Gras is celebrated one more time with Masque de la Mobile in the capital of French Louisianne, Mobile ( Alabama ), before Mobile is moved 27 miles ( 43 km ) down the Mobile River to Mobile Bay in 1711.

Mardi Gras, ( French for " Fat Tuesday ", also known as Shrove Tuesday ), is the day before Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent, a 40-day period of fasting and reflection in preparation for Easter Sunday.

To allow for greater inclusion of the LGBTQI community it represents ( including those identifying as bisexual, transexual, queer and intersex ), on 17 November 2011 the festival and event organisers changed the event name to " Sydney Mardi Gras ".

Each year, a Chief of Parade ( Grand Marshal ), is chosen by the organisation New Mardi Gras as someone who represents the values and spirit of Mardi Gras.

Though it has rained on several Mardi Gras parades ( notably with heavy downpours prior to, and drizzle during, the parade in 1995, and heavy rainfall during the parade in 2004 ), this has never stopped the parade.

* Other annual major cultural events include Victorian Christmas ( street faire ), Summer Nights ( street faire ), Mardi Gras, Fourth of July Parade, Teddy Bear Convention, and Psychic Faire.

An official Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras festival event, the critically acclaimed independent production starred Simon Corfield ( Jamie ), Natalie Murray ( Leah ), Fiona Harris ( Sandra ), Andrew Wallace ( Ste ) and Charles Kevin ( Tony ).

" The guajeo-like piano part for the rumba-boogie " Mardi Gras in New Orleans " ( 1949 ), employs the 2-3 clave onbeat / offbeat motif.

* The Best of The Meters ( 1975 ), Mardi Gras, Virgo

Medieval designs include a large number of catapults such as the Mangonel, Onager, the ballista, the traction trebuchet ( first designed in China in the 3rd century BC and was brought over to Europe in the 4th century AD ), and the counterweight trebuchet ( first described by Mardi bin Ali al-Tarsusi in the 12th century, though of unknown origin ).

Ellicottville has a large number of festivals throughout the year, including Mardi Gras ( which, ironically, is always held during Lent ), a " Rock ' n ' Oldies Weekend ," and a " Taste of Ellicottville.

Since then, Everett has participated in public activities ( leading the 2007 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ), played a double role in the film St. Trinian's, and has appeared on TV several times ( as a contestant in the special Comic Relief Does The Apprentice, as a presenter at Live Earth and as guest host at Channel 4 show The Friday Night Project among others ), but has made much news for making shocking comments and remarks at interviews that have caused public outrage.

Arquette was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Lewis Arquette, an actor, and Brenda Olivia " Mardi " ( née Nowak ), an actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher, and therapist.

Méringue has lost popularity to Compas ( Kompa ), but Méringue remains the soul of the Haitian Carnival ( Mardi Gras ).