Saints are marching in, beads are tumbling down, and all bejeezus is breaking loose!  New Jersey’s ONLY WEEK-LONG Mardi Gras celebration runs from Fri. Feb. 20th to Fat Tuesday Feb. 24th, at ODDFELLOWS REST in Hoboken.

Oddfellows Rest was founded by New Orleans natives. They know Mardi Gras!

The best Louisiana-flavored funk and zydeco bands in the region will be raising the roof at Oddfellows in Hoboken on Fri, Feb 20th. and Sat, Feb. 21st. NIGHT TRAIN (Feb. 20th), Roxy Perry featuring Otis & The Hurricanes (Feb 21st).

Then on Mardi Gras itself - Tuesday Feb. 24th - style party band THE VOODUDES will be Iko Iko-ing into the night and kicking up a funkified storm with their mix of Mardi Gras tunes and bayou twists.

And the music isn’t the half of it, cherie!!

Beads, trinkets, and doubloons will be tossed to partyers from the huge Mardi Gras float..
Pots of Jambalaya will be cooking in the kitchen, Hurricanes (what, you’ve never had a Hurricane??) will be available at the bar.

If you’ve never celebrated Mardi Gras, you don’t know what you’re missing.

Dixie folks knew what they were doing when they put their greatest holiday smack in the
middle of the dreary months between Christmas and Memorial Day.  Mardi Gras - literally “Fat Tuesday” - has been the traditional pre-Lent “last fling” in New Orleans and elsewhere since the 18th century. Balls, parades, and parties are all anyone thinks about during the “carnival season,” which lasts from Jan.6th to Fat Tuesday.

At Oddfellows Rest (named after a famous New Orleans cemetery) you’ll see authentic versions of all the New Orleans traditions: the masks, the floats, the Mardi Gras colors of purple, green and gold (symbolizing justice, faith and power). Come in costume!!!