Our annual spring festival, ArtiGras (FREE), is similar to Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It is comprised of food & crafts vendors, activities, art exhibitions, stage performances preceded by dance lessons, and a parade around Railroad Square. Led by a brass band, the parade includes groups and individuals who have created their own costumes or small floats, decorated their cars, or dressed up their dogs. ArtiGras makes a special effort to educate Southside students about the Creole cultures of the South that have Mardi Gras traditions (i.e., New Orleans and S.W. Louisiana, Mobile, and Apalachicola).
Bands: Bill “Sauce Boss” Wharton (5 pm); The Common ‘Taters and the Turn-Ups (6 pm); Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole, from Lafayette, Louisiana (7 pm); JB’s ZydecoZoo (8 pm); and Just Us in Counterpoint (9 pm).
View the links below on how you can Get Involved and help make ArtiGras! 2019 a huge success.:
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
ArtiGras 2019 activities open
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
ArtiGras 2019 Costume & Float Parade
5:00 PM – 5:45 PM
Band, “Bill ‘Sauce Boss’ Wharton”
6:00 PM – 6:45 PM
Band, “The Common ‘Taters & the Turn-Ups”
7:00 PM – 7:45 PM
Special Guest Artists, “Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole”
8:00 PM – 8:45 PM
Band, “JB’s ZydecoZoo”
9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Band, “Just Us in Counterpoint”
10:00 PM
After-Party with “Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole” and “The Soul Collective” at the Signature Lounge
(click here for tickets)
Come get some Zydeco dance lessons so you can move to the rhythms of Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole from Breaux Bridge, Louisiana (10pm-midnight). Then experience the sweet sounds of the Soul Collective put together by Ms. Lili Forbes (Lyrical Lynn) (midnight-2 am).
DATE: Saturday, February 16, 2019
TIME: 10 PM – 2 AM
LOCATION: Signature Lounge | 242 E. Orange Ave. | Tallahassee, Florida 32303
TICKETS: $20 general admission; $30 VIP
» CLICK HERE to purchase tickets
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