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."]
