Mardi Gras refers to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after Epiphany, and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday.
Mardi Gras may also refer to:
Festivals[edit]
- Mardi Gras in Mobile, annual Carnival festival held in Mobile, Alabama
- New Orleans Mardi Gras, annual Carnival festival held in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Mardi Gras throws, strings of beads, doubloons, cups, and other trinkets typical of the New Orleans Mardi Gras
- Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, at one stage temporarily the Sydney Mardi Gras, a gay pride parade held annually in Sydney, Australia
Business and transportation[edit]
- Mardi Gras (ship) three ships bearing the name
- Mardi Gras, a line of napkins (and formerly, paper towels) made by Georgia-Pacific
Arts, entertainment, and media[edit]
Film[edit]
- Mardi Gras (1943 film), a short
- Mardi Gras (1958 film), a musical starring Pat Boone
- Mardi Gras: Spring Break, a 2011 American film starring Carmen Electra
Music[edit]
- Mardi Gras (album), a 1972 album by Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Mardi Gras (EP), a 2010 EP by Cowboy Mouth
- Mardi Gras (music group), a New York City based rock'n'roll band successful in the early 1970s in Europe
- "Mardi Gras", a 1977 song by Gino Vanelli from A Pauper in Paradise
- "Take Me to the Mardi Gras", a 1973 song by Paul Simon, covered by Bob James
People[edit]
- Mardi Gras Indians, African-American Carnival revelers in New Orleans, Louisiana, who dress up as Native Americans
- Edgar Pearce, (born 1937/38), the "Mardi Gra bomber", responsible for a terror campaign in London during the mid-1990s
See also[edit]
- MardiGrass, a cannabis-law reform festival held in the town of Nimbin, in north east New South Wales, Australia
- Mardi (disambiguation)