Celebrate Mardi Gras in a family-friendly fashion at Findlay Market. The market gets festive with music, food, costumes and merchant stand decorations, a traditional parade, samples of a lowland crawfish boil and beer sampling. Free beads will be given away by the Friends of Findlay Market.
At 11:45 a.m. the King and Queen of Mardi Gras will be crowned and the Jazz Parade through the Market Square will begin at noon. Music in the Market will start at 11 a.m. with Lagniappe, followed by Robin Lacy and DeZydeco at 12:30 p.m., then Ricky Nye at 1:45 p.m. and finally The Medicine Men at 3 p.m.
The free samples of the traditional lowland crawfish boil will be available from 1-4 p.m. with sides of potatoes and corn on the cob.
Step over to Market Wines and enjoy a beer tasting to compliment the lowland crawfish boil. Michael Maxwell will feature a menu of two wines and two beers that you can sample for $ per 2 oz. glass. Fifty cents of each dollar benefits Findlay Market.
This article appears in Feb 18-24, 2009.
