Wednesday night, the final week of Carnival kicked off with the Krewe of Ancient Druids and Krewe of Nyx parades. Last year, we braved freezing rain but the skies were clear for this year’s festivities. Druids may have taken their ribbing of female parades too far with their Louisiana Purchase card (our version of food stamps) float displaying a sign reading, “Preferred Card of all Female Mardi Gras Krewes.” But the parade was fun, traditional and featured fun female dance troupes like Organ Grinders and Amelia Earhawts (who seem to be parading every day!).
Nyx may only be a few years old, but they’ve swelled the Wednesday night crowds significantly. Q93.3 rolled ahead of the parade and stopped in front of us to start a street dance-party. The floats were pretty and there were plenty of dance troupes including the Sirens, Muff-A-Lottas, 610 Stompers, Disco Amigos and the Pussyfooters! Dames de Perlage showed off their beaded corsets and the Try Athletes rode by on neon-lighted bikes with go-cups in hand.
The prized throw at Nyx is one of their hand-decorated signature purses (like the coveted Muses shoes) and I managed to get one from the last woman on the last float. Yay! For more on the history of theses Krewes, click HERE.
-
- Krewe of Druids begins
-
- ???
-
- Organ Grinders
-
- Organ Grinders ,
-
- Amelia Earhawts
-
- Druids ends
-
- Q 93.3 street party
-
- Nyx begins
-
- Sirens
-
- Sirens,
-
- Muff-A-Lottas
-
- the 610 Stompers
-
- 610 Stompers
-
- Disco Amigos
-
- Disco Amigos,
-
- bubbles!
-
- the Pussyfooters
-
- Pussyfooters!
-
- Pussyfooters
-
- Dames de Perlage
-
- Try Athletes
-
- purse!
L.A. to N.O.LA 
Greetings from the Amelia EarHawts & Cabin Krewe. Thank you so very much for mentioning Da Hawts in your post. Yes, for our premiere flight year, we participated in 5 parades during the 2015 Mardi Gras season & look forward to 2016.
My pleasure. What a fun addition to the season.
Loving your posts during this Carnival season. I love the week before Mardi Gras — the parades and fun, without it being too packed.
Me too. We share our city with so many visitors all year round but never more than during Mardi Gras. Sometimes it’s nice when it’s just us.