Contemporary Mardi Gras[edit]
Float on Magazine Street, 1996
Mounted Krewe Officers in the Thoth Parade, 1994
Each year the New Orleans Carnival season starts on January 6, known in England as "Twelfth Night". The Twelfth Night Revelers, New Orleans' second oldest Krewe, hold a masked ball each year to mark the beginning of New Orleans' Carnival season. Many of Carnival's oldest societies, such as the Independent Strikers' Society, hold masked balls but no longer parade in public.