PARADE DATE: January 23, 2026 - Once Upon a Fou!

 

Les Fous du Carnaval is back for our FIFTH YEAR as a parade to cordially invite all wayward princesses & knights to step into the storybook with us for our next enchanted chapter:

✨Once Upon A Fou✨ on Friday, January 23, 2026, at 8pm

Gather round, lantern-lit darlings, as we make a wish on a falling star, skip the light fandango, listen to the miller tell his tale, and bewitch the denizens of this moon-drunk wildwood we call home into collaboratively feral characters in our fractured fable. You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here? The ending may be riddle-ridden and, possibly, negotiable as our walking parade trips through the Marigny and French Quarter, dragging folklore behind it like a torn hem, but we’ll certainly never live quietly ever after! “There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief… 

We’ll rule our lives like a fine skylark and when the sky is starless, our merry band of troubadours begins our Carnival enchantment and misrule at 8pm at the corner of Frenchmen & Decatur Streets, then unspools along this route:

Frenchmen —> Royal

Royal —> St. Philip

St. Philip —> Decatur

Decatur —> Jackson Square

Les Fous du Carnaval is a creative collaborative of inner krewes including Krewe of Goddesses, Flora & Fauna, The Legendary Order of the Casket Girls, Shimmy Shakti Belly Dance Goddesses, Mystical Krewe of Aziza, Bywater Crazy Cat Ladies & Gents, and our newest inner krewes, Mahogany Blue Baby Dolls & Queerly Beloved. There’s a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure ‘cause, you know sometimes words have two meanings… 

Our charms will guile & delight parade-goers with a pageant of ornate costumes, hand-crafted gifts of talismans, a series of increasingly questionable tableaux, and the forests will echo with laughter as we prowl, haunt, conjure, and scamper off-script to the brass bands New Groove, Kings of Brass, and the Banana Peel Stompers.

But let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late…