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Pensacola’s Mardi Gras Celebration Postponed Until May
December 29, 2020
Pensacola’s 2021 Mardi Gras celebration as been postponed until May.
The 2021 Season Kick-Off Celebration and Blessing of the Krewe Fleets event previously scheduled on January 8 will no take place in May and will kick-off an even larger Pensacola “Carnivale Celebration”.
“We want to have the best Mardi Gras experience for our wonderful Krewes of Pensacola, in the safest way possible for the entire community,” said Danny Zimmern, president of Pensacola Mardi Gras, Inc. “This year, that is just going to look a little different from the experience we all know and love, as we celebrate together in Carnivale”
The decision to postpone derived from many long and detailed conversations between Pensacola Mardi Gras, Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson and city staff with focus centered on public health. Due to the current rising number of virus cases, the team members of Pensacola Mardi Gras and the city staff agreed that postponing the event was the most responsible course of action.
“The spike in hospitalizations makes a postponement of celebrations logical” said Robinson. “At city hall, we recognize how important the community of our great Krewes is, and we want to celebrate all together. We look forward to gathering after this pause, outside and being socially responsible at Roger Scott, and in the historic streets of downtown.”
The one-time, unique 2021 Carnivale Celebration will begin in May and is set to include a Kick-Off celebration to ignite the experience, as well as a Grand Parade, and a few other unique and exciting experiences inspired by the local krewes, and will lead into Pensacola’s celebration of its history, Fiesta. The Grand Fiesta Parade will be on Friday June 4, 2021.
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10 Responses to “Pensacola’s Mardi Gras Celebration Postponed Until May”
Josh Jones. Lent is not a Christian tradition, it is catholic. completely different.
@ JTV….
You did nail the statement on “Grover”. Not sure Morgan would be any better.
Mardi Gras is a definate date and should NOT be just moved around at the whim of some group, individual or other’s opinion.
If the celebration cannot be held on the specific date then skip it until 2022.
Unsure why Biden says the darkest days of covid are Ahead of Us….thought he had a PLAN to end the chinese virus.
@ JTV….
You did nail the statement on “Grover”. Not sure Morgan would be any better.
Mardi Gras is a definate date and should NOT be just moved around at the whim of some group, individual or other’s opinion.
If the celebration cannot be held on the specific date then skip it until 2022.
Unsure why Biden says the darkest days of covid are Ahead of Us….
Y’all go ahead and have your ‘celebrations’, debauchery, drunkenness up until Fat Tuesday and I’ll forgive you (wink, wink).
Another reason why in quit donating and promoting pensacola/Escambia county. The government here is stuck in sand
While Lent is based in Christianity, Mardi Gras is not. It is the people’s last hurrah before the ritual Lenten sacrifices and fasting of the Lenten season.
Mardi Gras is not a religious event. If it was it would be celebrated universally. Plenty of cities have no Mardi Gras events, including some of the largest American cities: New York, Chicago, Houston. Mardi Gras is celebrated in only a handful of American cities: Mobile, New Orleans, Pensacola, etc.
Changing the date of Pensacola’s Mardi Gras celebration will not reduce its impact, but postponing it will ensure its participants are better protected from the COVID virus.
@JTV – totally agree! They didn’t have a problem cancelling for 2020. Mardi Gras is NOT in May and “Carnivale” is a flimsy excuse to replace it for whatever monetary gain is/was expected.
Maybe we should have 2021’s Easter and Christmas on that same date in May. What a fabulous way to carve Christianity out of our country! But, I guess we need to keep Easter and Christmas on track with their 2021 dates since they have their own “surge” of spending.
Wow, for a town that likes to have a Marci Gras parade, it amazes me that they don’t have a clue about it’s traditions rooted in the Catholic faith. Mardi Gras is not like a sport season that can be moved around. January 6th, Three Kings Day starts the season and ends on Fat Tuesday before the holy period of lent. Ever wonder why all the celebrations stop sharply at Midnight in New Orleans. To have this type of celebration after lent is insane and speaks more to the money involved then the it’s meaning. If we must, to protect others and ourselves, then perhaps the best decision is to fore go the parades this year. WWJD?
Grover is an idiot.
Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday isn’t an arbitrary event
It’s the day before Ash Wednesday
It’s the celebration before people fast for Lent.
Would he move the Christmas festivities to March?
He just tossed the Christian meaning of the time out the door
No public assembly for Mardi Gras but no problem with the BLM protests earlier in the year. No Trump street mural but BLM street mural ok. Taking down Confederate monument supposed to heal all the ills of Pcola but more violence then ever. Grover and his bunch have an agenda? VOTE OUT GROVER AND HIS CREW!