Owing their name to Uptown’s popular Oak Street, Krewe of OAK (Outrageous and Kinky) will be hosting the Mid-Summer Mardi Gras parade on Saturday, Aug. 27 beginning at Maple Leaf Bar at 7:30 p.m.
This will be the krewe’s 30th Mid-Summer Mardi Gras, the tradition dating back to the early ‘80s. The parade route is unique from Mardi Gras parades in that floats are too big to traverse the narrow Uptown streets, so the Krewe of OAK and about 10,000 costumed marchers and musicians form an organized procession from Oak to Carrollton to Palmer Park and then back down Carrollton and Oak.
The 30th anniversary theme is “Get Wet,” blending the Krewe’s snarky adult theme with nautical costumes. The Krewe has reminded paraders to bring extra water, as it will be a very hot late summer night.
