The Most Striking Period of the Year: Mardi Gras Krewe
Remember those bright vivid colors that only show up once a year. Those floats decorated with all different types of creative theme, knowing that as they past none were the same. Those eye-catching outfits, “wild and spunky”, as some would say while some just reminded you of a favorite cartoon character growing up. Music from all different times of the musical era from hip hop and r&b, those classic sounds that you could only get from a family baroque, and the very sound that makes Mardi Gras so special “the jazz”. Although, the best part of all for some is dancing and interacting alongside the marching bands and dancers that would parade down the street playing instruments, singing, and dancing. On the other hand, the best part of it all is free candy, stuff animals, and breeds that the Krewe of the floats would throw as they dance to their beat. Describing these things draw a certain kind of image the only classic sign that you were stepping into carnival Mardi Gras.
Mardi Gras is not just carnival but a festival with …show more content…
Makes sense, seeing before that, krewes threw any manner of items, including food and dirt. Today krewes buy plastic beads en masse which parade-goers prefer over dirt! Locals still love to see throws of tiny glass bead strands, which are rare and seemed, too phased out in the 1960s and 1970s”. (Hudson para. 4)
In today’s Mardi Gras parade, each krewe are known for throwing their own breads and items specially known to their krewe. In the Bacchus parade, the King's float throws doubloons with the image of the celebrity king on one side of the doubloon. Most parade krewes hand out plastic cups with their unique insignia. Famous sunglasses from the oldest female Mardi Gras krewe, decorated coconuts, dazzling purses from the women of Nyx, the Goddess of Night ,
Remember those bright vivid colors that only show up once a year. Those floats decorated with all different types of creative theme, knowing that as they past none were the same. Those eye-catching outfits, “wild and spunky”, as some would say while some just reminded you of a favorite cartoon character growing up. Music from all different times of the musical era from hip hop and r&b, those classic sounds that you could only get from a family baroque, and the very sound that makes Mardi Gras so special “the jazz”. Although, the best part of all for some is dancing and interacting alongside the marching bands and dancers that would parade down the street playing instruments, singing, and dancing. On the other hand, the best part of it all is free candy, stuff animals, and breeds that the Krewe of the floats would throw as they dance to their beat. Describing these things draw a certain kind of image the only classic sign that you were stepping into carnival Mardi Gras.
Mardi Gras is not just carnival but a festival with …show more content…
Makes sense, seeing before that, krewes threw any manner of items, including food and dirt. Today krewes buy plastic beads en masse which parade-goers prefer over dirt! Locals still love to see throws of tiny glass bead strands, which are rare and seemed, too phased out in the 1960s and 1970s”. (Hudson para. 4)
In today’s Mardi Gras parade, each krewe are known for throwing their own breads and items specially known to their krewe. In the Bacchus parade, the King's float throws doubloons with the image of the celebrity king on one side of the doubloon. Most parade krewes hand out plastic cups with their unique insignia. Famous sunglasses from the oldest female Mardi Gras krewe, decorated coconuts, dazzling purses from the women of Nyx, the Goddess of Night ,