Video ~ New Orleans Mardi Gras 2008 ~ Fat Tuesday in the French Quarter

llarrylane has created a wonderful Mardi Gras 2008 video! It captures the colorful, exotic, beautiful, funny and elaborate costumes revelers wore to parade through the French Quarter on Fat Tuesday (February 5th, 2008). You can feel what a marvelous time they are all having in New Orleans.

New Orleans 44th Annual Mardi Gras Marathon ~ February 24th, 2008

Run or walk at the 44th Annual New Orleans Mardi Gras Marathon. The course will wind its way through the beautiful streets and neighborhoods of NOLA. You begin at the Louisiana Superdome. It will take you through the French Quarter ~ down Bourbon and Royal Streets. Travel St Charles Avenue to Audubon Park and in the Garden District. Then, down the beautiful Bayou St John to City Park. Does any other race have such a historic & gorgeous course?!? Both the marathon and half marathon end back at the Superdome.

They are also asking for area high school bands and music groups to participate by performing along the course and cheering on the runners/walkers. How fun!

Mardi Gras Marathon
Sponsored by the New Orleans Track Club
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Beginning at 7:00 AM CST
Rain or shine
Marathon, half marathon & 5K race
Phone number ( 888 ) 485 - 2582
http://www.mardigrasmarathon.com/registration.shtml

Click on the image above for a larger version of the course map.

New Orleans Band, Bonerama, to perform on The Late Show with David Letterman

New Orleans "brass funk rock" band, Bonerama will perform on The Late Show with David Letterman next Monday night! This will be their first time on the program. However, two members of the band have appeared on Letterman a few times with a guy named Harry Connick, JR. Bonerama's Craig Klein and Mark Mullins are his trombonists.

OK Go's Damian Kulash will also appear. The performance on Letterman is to promote their new release ~ "You're Not Alone." The amazing thing is all proceeds from the recording will benefit musicians who were affected by Hurricane Katrina. *cheer* You can get "You're Not Alone" exclusively from iTunes. What a great cause!

Bonerama
David Letterman's Talk Show
Monday, February 11th, 2008
CBS Network
10:30 PM in most markets ~ check your tv listings
http://www.bonerama.net/newsevents.html

Video ~ Society of Saint Anne Mardi Gras Parade 2008

22nola has provided this great fan video from Mardi Gras 2008. It shows a bit of the Society of Saint Anne and the Storyville Stompers' parade. Talk about being right in the middle of the action! Filmed at Rue Royal and Elysian Fields.

Fleur De Tease Burlesque Dance Troupe ~ Show Sunday, Feb 10th

Celebrate Valentine's Day a bit early.... Fleur De Tease is a burlesque dance troupe performing in New Orleans. In addition to the lovely dancers, they have fire eaters, comedians, aerialists, magicians and singers. You never know what you will see because every performance is different. Their next shows will be on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 at One Eyed Jacks. You can pick from two show times or go to both!

Valentine's Revue
Fleur De Tease
Sunday, 02/10/08
8:00pm & 10:00pm
One Eyed Jacks
615 Toulouse Street
New Orleans, LA
Email : info@fleurdetease.com
http://www.fleurdetease.com/Home.html

The lovely photos are by Hampton Van Meter.

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra ~ Festa d’Italia

The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra will offer a two day "Celebration of American-Italian Contributions to New Orleans Culture" on February 22nd & 23rd. You can enjoy food, music and fashion! *cheer* It all begins with a concert on Friday the 22nd at 7:30pm in McAlister Auditorium on the Tulane University campus. On Saturday from 11:00am to 4:00pm, a bunch of restaurants and stores on Canal Street will offer fun for the whole family ~ street art, food, music and more. The festivities conclude that night with a grand ball.

Festa d’ Italia
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra

New Orleans, LA
Friday, 02/22/08 & Saturday, 02/23/08
http://www.lpomusic.com/index.php?q=festaditalia

Happy Mardi Gras ~ Fleur De Lis Wallpaper

Happy Mardi Gras! To celebrate Fat Tuesday, this Fleur De Lis wallpaper is for you. Decorate your website, computer background or MySpace Page. I hope you all had a marvelous, SAFE time while you were celebrating :)