The streets of New Orleans are expected to be flooded with green-tinted processions and a heavy dose of Irish extravaganza this weekend in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day.

Jim Monaghan’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade will kick things off on Friday, March 13, at 6:30 p.m. in the French Quarter, and the Irish Channel Parade will ramble through Uptown on Saturday, March 14, starting at 1 p.m.

For the 33rd year, Jim Monaghan’s parade will send participants roaming through the French Quarter. The Storyville Stompers brass band will lead the carriages and green-tuxedoed in a joyful march around the Vieux Carré.

The parade will start at Molly’s at the Market, roll down Decatur Street and make its way back up Bourbon Street.

Bands and dance krewes will be marching amid the bead-tossing, including the New Wave Brass Band, Star-Steppin’ Cosmonaughties, Bearded Oysters, Celtic Highlanders, Muffalottas and the Irish Zulu marchers.

The 68 years-old Irish Channel St. Patrick’s Day Club will be tossing green beads as well, as they stomp through uptown after their traditional noon mass at St. Mary’s Church.

Starting at Felicity and Magazine streets, the parade advance through the Irish Channel and Garden District, down St. Charles and back up Magazine Street.

A thousand marchers are expected to accompany the dozens of floats and scooters, all led by the club’s president Dick Burke and his brother Ray Burke who was named grand marshal of this year’s parade.

The lucky ones will get to take home a cabbage, highly coveted trophy of the annual Irish Channel parade.

We’re all Irish this weekend!