Mardi Gras parades start about two weeks before Mardi Gras day. The date of Mardi Gras changes each year since the date of Easter changes. Mardi Gras day always falls the day before Ash Wednesday.
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The Spanish do not celebrate Mardi Gras.
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In Mardi Gras Carnivals, people feast and celebrate before the Lenten fast which begins with Ash Wednesday. In New Orleans, there are parades and marching bands.
In mid February the ancient Romans celebrated the Lupercalia, a circus like festival not entirely unlike the Mardi Gras we are familiar with today.
New Orleans
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The Cayman Islands Mardi Gras takes place every year on Kaibo Beach on the Ash Wednesday public holiday. This year's Mardi Gras on February 25th 2009 was the 10 year anniversary at Kaibo.
Mardi Gras occurs in February. The date is different every year and offers parades costumes, beads, a lot of alcohol, and masks.
The people who stage Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans form a club. Just like Kiwanis or Rotary. However, to differentiate their clubs from other non-Mardi Gras clubs, they are called "krewes" (pronounced crews.