We will start at Fred's Lounge at 7 a.m. with the crowd before the riders come through town.
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| Mamou - 2011 |
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Courir de Mardi Gras
Tuesday, February 9, is Mardi Gras. Weather and all else permitting, we plan to go to the Cajun Mardi Gras celebration in Mamou, LA, known as the Courir de Mardi Gras. We witnessed this a few years ago and it is quite a unique experience.
We will start at Fred's Lounge at 7 a.m. with the crowd before the riders come through town.
Then we will join the procession of cars/trucks that follow the riders for awhile. Here is a link to an hour long documentary referred to by "Louisiana Cultural Vistas" as"the acclaimed documentary Dance for a Chicken: Inside the Prairie Cajun Mardi Gras,
funded in part by a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. The
article captures the rollicking festivities in Eunice, the "Tee"
Mamou run, and the jousting parodies offered up by the revelers. " Eunice is just down the road from Mamou.
We will start at Fred's Lounge at 7 a.m. with the crowd before the riders come through town.
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