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The Krewe du Vieux is a New Orleans Mardi Gras krewe more fully known as the Krewe du Vieux Carré.^[1]

History and formation

The parade begins in the Marigny and slowly meanders its way through the Vieux Carre ("Vieux Carre" being another term for the city's French Quarter). It is one of the earliest parades of the New Orleans Carnival calendar, and is noted for wild satirical and adult themes, as well as for showcasing a large number of New Orleans' best brass bands.

The Krewe du Vieux was established in 1987^[2]. It is actually an amalgamation of several smaller semi-independent krewes (or sub-krewes) that pool their resources together for parade permits and other expenses and obligations. Several of the sub-krewes predate the Krewe du Vieux, originating as walking clubs or as sub-krewes of the defunct Krewe of Clones in the 1970s and early 1980s.

In 2006, less than six months after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, Krewe du Vieux was the first Mardi Gras parade to roll through the streets of New Orleans. The theme that year was "C'est Levee".

In 2011, Krewe du Vieux celebrated their silver anniversary under the banner "25 Years Wasted". Don Marshall, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Executive Director ruled as King. The parade was blessed with beautiful weather and huge crowds.

Membership

Membership to Krewe du Vieux is open to all dues paid members of affiliated sub-Krewes.

Parade

The Krewe du Vieux is perhaps simultaneously the most individualistic and the most traditional of all New Orleans parading krewes. It has no large tractor-pulled floats like the larger krewes, using only old-style, small, human-drawn or mule-drawn floats interspersed with marchers on foot. It has no recorded music blaring from boom box trucks, for the Krewe du Vieux uses music only from live bands. The floats are handmade and decorated by members of the respective sub-krewes, often with themes satirizing local politics and customs, sometimes of a bawdy nature — in such aspects arguably closer to early-19th-century Carnival traditions than any other Krewe currently parading. The Krewe du Vieux is the only Krewe still allowed to parade through the French Quarter (other than some small walking Krewes on Mardi Gras Day); krewes with larger floats have been prohibited in the narrow streets of the old town since the 1970s.

Parade theme

Krewe du Vieux typically selects a parade theme pulling from ideas of political satire, sexuality, and local culture.

Parade themes

Monarchs

Krewe du Vieux honors a New Orleanian, particularly notable as a representative of the local culture, as monarch. Various local musicians, artists, writers, and colorful characters have reigned as King or Queen.

King Sarcophagus I

Krewe du Vieux monarch Henri Schindler rode as King Sarcophagus I in 1993. The king's float, a float of his own design, stopped in front of the Boston Club and he placed a funeral wreath. The Boston Club had been a traditional stop for toasting the Kings of Carnival until the City Council in 1992 required Mardi Gras organizations to diversify their members in exchange for a parade permit. Rather than comply with that order, the krewes Knights of Momus, Mistick Krewe of Comus, and Krewe of Proteus ceased parading.^[5]

Accompanied by subjects in black robes, veils, and masks Sarcophagus addressed his subjects with a proclamation on behalf of Momus, Comus, and Proteus.

Seven of your generations in this goodly Crescent City have known us only through our rides on avenue and street. So near to crossing with us into yet a third century, old as the oaks they travelled under, our parade cars wait now at rest and our flambeaux know neither fuel nor flame. Wooden wheels which rode the cobbles to the shouts of your great, great grandfathers might turn not again, and the torches which lit their laughing faces might nevermore reappear, but, citizens, be certain, our societies will endure.

So, let the celebration that we sired proceed apace. Go forward, New Orleanians, with carefree abandon and Carnival gladness unabated. Adieu, fair city, until the coming of some happy day when the Furies are done and the Fates call us to ride again to greet you.

Post-script: Now, we Sarcophagus and our loyal subjects, say to the junta in power at City Hall, sucking the lifeblood of our Carnival and our city: your days are numbered.

To our future leaders who would restore harmony and joy to this city, we cry out: Bring back Momus! Bring back Proteus! Bring back Comus!

References

1. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.neworleans.com/event/krewe-du-vieux-parade/3242/|title=Krewe du Vieux Parade|last=|first=|date=|work=neworleans.com|access-date=2018-07-09}}
2. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_2431a49e-cd48-5b5a-a925-f253363d363e.html|title=Alternative krewes have long been part of Mardi Gras in New Orleans|last=Hardy|first=Arthur|date=February 17, 2015|work=The New Orleans Advocate|access-date=June 29, 2018}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.nola.com/entertainment/2018/12/walter-wolfman-washington-crowned-krewe-du-vieux-2019-king-at-75th-birthday-concert.html|title=Walter ‘Wolfman’ Washington crowned Krewe du Vieux 2019 king at 75th birthday concert|publisher=The Times-Picayune|first=Doug|last=MacCash}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.mardigras.com/news/2016/11/krewe_du_vieux_2017_bunny_matt.html|title=Krewe Du Vieux 2017 crowns cartoonist Bunny Matthews king|publisher=The Times-Picayune|first=Doug|last=MacCash}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.nola.com/300/2018/09/henri_schindler_carnival_histo.html|title=To you, it's a Mardi Gras parade. To him, it's an art form.|publisher=The Times-Picayune}}