Monday February 1510 am – 5:30 pm
18th Annual Zulu Lundi Gras Festival
Woldenberg Park
1 Canal Street
New Orleans
"The festival event will feature local and world -renowned entertainers performing on three stages. Musicians such as Kermit Ruffin, Amanada Shaw and the Cute Guys, Ed Perkins, Rebirth Brass Band, Pinstripe Jazz Band and many more will be providing non-stop music.
The Lundi Gras Festival will add flavor to your day when the 17 food vendors kick up the Cajun aroma of crawfish pie, shrimp creole, file' gumbo, alligator sausage, Jamaican chicken, crawfish bread, barbeque ribs, seafood pasta, catfish po-boys, peach cobbler, pecan pie, and many more New Orleans delicacies. There are other attractions to wet your festive appetite. Everyone can join in a second line as the Zulu Mardi Gras Carnival Characters parade every hour through the thousands of revelers wearing their colorful flamboyant costumes. Who knows -- you may be one of the lucky ones to receive a treasured carnival throw -- the Zulu Lundi Gras Coconut!
Also, witness the arrival of the Zulu King and Queen by U.S. Coast Guard Cutter along with their entourage at 5 pm."
Free.
[Text from Festival website. Graphic from NOLA.com. Caption: "Staff photo by Ted Jackson. Larry Roy, official Zulu Minister of Fun displays a coconut for the crowd, enticing them with the Mardi Gras prize during the Zulu Lundi Gras Festival in Woldenberg Park in the French Quarter."]
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Follow-up: From the Mardi Gras February 16 edition of Nola.com:
"Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club receives $800,000 grant"
"This Lundi Gras came with a cash bonus, an $800,000 check for the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, which wants to build a new headquarters for the Carnival krewe that began parading in 1909.
Mayor Ray Nagin on Monday presented Zulu members with the grant, money made available through the city's office of economic development.
Zulu received the money through a "competitive procurement process" based on the availability of "urban development action grant" funds, said Nagin spokeswoman Ceeon Quiett.
Since 1978, Zulu has called 732 North Broad St. home. The two-story building has a first-floor lounge for members and their guests, and offices upstairs.
Zulu King Jimmie Felder met Rex King R. Hunter Pierson Jr. this evening during the traditional riverfront ceremony on Lundi Gras.
For the first time in its 139-year run, Rex unveiled the identity of its Mardi Gras king one day early, on Monday evening, during the ceremonial exchange of gifts between Zulu and Rex royalty.
Arriving by Coast Guard cutters, Zulu and Rex royalty met at Spanish Plaza. Former First Lady Laura Bush rode along with Rex, telling reporters that New Orleans "really looks good" and that her husband is not with her on the trip."
entire article By Gwen Filosa, The Times-Picayune
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