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Over the years, the Krewe of Julu
has become one of the many wonderful Mardi Gras traditions of this
city that gives life to the famous phrase, “Only in New Olr
eans.” What began
as no more than a glimmer of an idea in 1993 by a few musical
acquaintances brought together by their surprising lust for Eastern
European folk music, has grown into an indescribable annual
tradition each Tuesday before Lent. While Julu has always prided
itself in not actually having any organization or even much
discussion about the year’s celebration, it still requires a certain
amount of perseverance, diligence and these days, financial support.
The euphoric bisection of the Crescent City by costumed hooligans
has always begun Uptown and jubilantly set sail across the City,
through the French Quarter (and sometimes Treme) to the Marigny
Triangle where the parade reached its culmination, but now the
parade is led by a an organized group of musicians called a brass
band. In the early days, an amalgamation of hung over horn players
and strung out percussionists would be thrown together at sunrise to
preside over that years’ festivities. Now that Julu has grown up a
bit, an actual living breathing professional rehearsed brass band is
hired to become the engine for the day. The Krewe still encourages
audience participation of the musical kind, but we are no longer
beholden to a late Algiers Ferry or a passed out drummer.
Due to this commitment for an actual Brass Band, a certain
amount of funds need to be raised to guarantee that the show goes on
and we aren’t relegated to accappela show tunes with a Zulu
tambourine accompaniment. Both our starting venue of choice,
Barrel Proof (
http://www.barrelproofnola.com), Dan Stein & Steins
Market & Deli (http://steinsdeli.net/home/)
and our final destination, DBA,(http://www.dbaneworleans.com) have stepped up to generously support Julu
this year and to both locations we offer a laurel and hardy
handshake and hopefully a large bar tab. This is not to say that
additional funds are not needed to offset costs associated with the
parade, but their help allows us not to have to shake everyone down
for money outside Barrel Proof once again.
Just remember, the
only rule of Julu is that everyone needs a costume. Feel free to
invite friends that will positively add to the festivities and don’t
feel any pressure to hump a cannon inside Coliseum Square Park, but
do feel pressure to don some killer threads.
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