Future dates for
Fat Tuesday
  • 2011 -- March 8
  • 2012 -- Feb. 21
  • 2013 -- Feb. 12
  • 2014 -- March 4
  • 2015 -- Feb. 17

    • Parade routes
  • Thibodaux, traditional
  • Lockport, traditional

    • Mardi Gras

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    Feb. 25, 2011, ushers in Mardi Gras locally. Fat Tuesday falls on March 8, 2011, and the greatest free show on Earth starts rolling down Bayou Lafourche on Feb. 25. There are 26 Mardi Gras parades in Lafourche, Assumption and Terrebonne parishes between Friday, Feb. 25, and Fat Tuesday, March 8, 2011, providing fun and entertainment for people of all ages and dispositions. Here's the tentative schedule:

    Friday, Feb. 25, 2011
    Mardi Hercules, 6 p.m., Houma

    Saturday, Feb. 26
    Des T-Cajuns, noon, Larose
    Bayou Petit Caillou, noon, Chauvin
    Aquarius, 6 p.m., Houma

    Sunday, Feb. 27
    Versailles, 11 a.m., Larose
    Ambrosia, 12:30 p.m., Thibodaux
    Hyacinthians, 12:30 p.m., Houma
    St. Mary’s, 1 p.m., Raceland
    Shaka, 2 p.m., Thibodaux

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    Friday, March 4
    Aphrodite, 6:30 p.m., Houma

    Saturday, March 5
    Apollo, noon, Lockport
    Atlantis, 1 p.m., Golden Meadow
    Le Krewe de Bon Temps Babylon, 6:30 p.m., Larose Mardi Gras, 6:30 p.m., Houma

    Sunday, March 6
    Terreanians, 12:30 p.m., Houma
    Cleophas, 12:30 p.m., Thibodaux
    Chronos, 2 p.m., Thibodaux
    Montegut Children's Parade, 2 p.m.
    Nereids, 6 p.m., Golden Meadow

    parade Monday, March 7
    Xanadu, 6:30 p.m., Labadieville
    Cleopatra, 6:30 p.m., Houma

    Fat Tuesday, March 8
    Krewe of Gheens, 10:30 a.m.
    Ghana, 11 a.m., Thibodaux
    Houmas, followed by Kajuns, 11 a.m., Houma
    Neptune, noon, Golden Meadow
    Choupic, 2 p.m.
    Bonne Terre, 4 p.m., Montegut

    Times and dates subject to change


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