FRENCH MARKET MARDI GRAS MARKET 2013
Featuring the 30th Annual Mardi Gras Mask Market
HELD AT THE FRENCH MARKET BETWEEN URSULINES AND BARRACKS
Friday February 8th – Monday February 11th (Lundi Gras)
10:00 am – 6:00 pm daily!
Mask Vendors
Masque Man
Horns – A Costume For Your Head
Semmerling & Schaefer Mask Studios
Feathers For Pleasure
Richard Thompson: Mr Hide Leather (Since 1986)
Friday, February 8th
Street Performances and Busking
Saturday, February 9th:
12 noon – 1:45 pm Joe Krown Trio
2:15 pm – 400 pm Vasti Jackson
Sunday, February 10th:
12 noon – 1:45 pm New Orleans Moonshiners
2:15 pm – 4:00 pm Kid Merv and All That Jazz
Monday, February 11th: Fat Monday at the French Market: A Lundi Gras Celebration as a culmination to our Mardi Gras Market. Children’s activities and brass bands from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
THROUGHOUT THE MARKET: The following bands will secondline through the French Market and perform in place at various spots from Ursulines to Barracks Street, near Farmers and Flea Markets
11-12:30 pm. Tornado Brass Band
1:30 p.m. Lagniappe Brass Band
2:30-4:00 p.m. Storyville Stompers
FARMERS MARKET STAGE
10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Royal & Dumaine Hawaiians perform a mix of Mardi Gras and trad jazz
11 a.m. Seguenone Kone presents a children’s drum and dance performance
12 noon Colette Le Blanc Tatum, author of Mardi Gras: An Alphabet Parade
1:00 p.m. Children’s author Alex McConduit, the Little Who Dat Who Didn’t
1:30-2:00 p.m. Children’s author Diane de Las Casas presents Dinosaur Mardi Gras and more!
2:00-4:00 Puppeteer from Carl Mack Presents
IN FARMERS MARKET STALLS:
STALL ONE:
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tisket A Tasket Bookshop hosts a children’s book table featuring local children’s authors and Mardi Gras books
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Facepainter Irina
10 a.m. to 12 noon Balloon Artist
12 noon to 2 p.m. Juggler
STALL TWO:
Mask Making & Mural Making
