Due to the overwhelming popularity of the uptown organization’s Mid Summer Mardi Gras celebration, the time of the parade and its route have been adjusted.
Last year, thousands of people turned out in costume at the Maple Leaf Bar for the annual Mid Summer Mardi Gras parade. The uptown neighborhood was gridlocked for hours. The event has simply grown too big to be accommodated on the narrow side streets between Broadway and Carrollton Avenue.
So this year, the parade, which is Saturday night, joins the big boys and will stay on the wide lanes of Carrollton. The parade will leave the Maple Leaf Bar at 7:30 and head out Carrollton with a planned stop at Palmer Park on the corner of S. Claiborne Avenue.
This should be a welcome respite from the congestion at Snake and Jake’s Christmas Tree Lounge and the other former stops. Beverages and bathrooms will be available.
After the stop the parade will return the Maple Leaf Bar along Carrollton Avenue.
Remember costumes are strongly encouraged and stay off the neutral ground. You don’t want your name mentioned on TVD because a streetcar hit you.
