Les Fous du Carnaval cordially invite one and all to clown around with us at our next commedia dell’arte! On Friday, January 19, 2024, at 8pm, we could be your fantasy! The streets are our stage and we present a veritable visual and auditory feast of mystery, artistry, and ribald fun with our dazzling display of “Big Clown Energy” as our jocular walking parade trips through the Marigny and French Quarter. Our only tricks are to guile & delight parade-goers with an array of droll costumes, hand-crafted tokens of mirth, and myriad tableaux of wonderment and chicanery in our annual jest as we scamp, prance, and gadabout to the brass bands, New Groove and Kings of Brass. We got that REAL big energy! Exercising our jester’s privilege, we’ll make the gathered throngs sing like a melody. Our Carnival stroll of misrule starts at 8pm at the corner of Frenchman & Decatur Streets, then we'll frolic through the Marigny / Quarter following this route: Frenchman --> Royal Royal --> St. Philip St. Philip --> Decatur Decatur --> Jackson Square The fantastical Les Fous du Carnaval is a creative collaborative of inner krewes: Krewe of Goddesses, Flora & Fauna, and Krewe of Hellarious Wingnuts. If you ain’t right, we got the remedy! In our third year parading on this same route, our merry band of bards has expanded to include a new inner krewe, The Legendary Order of the Casket Girls. Tonight, we do it your way! As always, the only way to find out is to come out! Leave all racism, misogyny, transphobia, or bigotry of any kind at home. And stay as safe from COVID as you can while out on the route~~remember Mardi Gras is for masking! Hope to see all of your beautiful faces there!! xoxo