The Mardi Gras Indians will take to the street, exhibiting their colors throughout the Uptown and Central City streets, on Super Sunday 2016, which will take place on Sunday, March 20.
Photo by Kim Welsh
Festivities, organized by the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Council and non-profit R.E.A.L., will begin at 11 a.m., at A.L. Davis Park on Washington Avenue and LaSalle Street. The parade will start there at 1 p.m.
Super Sunday, one of the city’s oldest and most meaningful cultural traditions, takes place yearly around St. Joseph’s Day. “Come sundown on the Italian saint’s holiday, the Mardi Gras Indians once again don their splendid feathered and beaded suits, taking to the streets to meet other ‘gangs,’” Geraldine Wyckoff wrote in OffBeat in 2001.
Council Chief Howard Miller announced the Super Sunday 2016 parade trail today. The procession will begin at Washington Ave. and LaSalle St.; moving onto Simon Bolivar Ave.; turning left onto Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.; turning left onto Claiborne Ave.; turning left onto Washington Ave.; culminating at Washington Ave. and LaSalle St. at A.L. Davis Park with cultural activities and live musical performances.
Alongside the Mardi Gras Indian Tribes, special guests are to appear on Super Sunday, including the Hot 8 Brass Band, Stooges Brass Band, D.J. Jubilee, the Ladybuck Jumpers, Young Men Olympian and many more.
To get in the spirit, OffBeat’s Brett Milano compiled a Super Sunday playlist in the February 2015 issue.
