"The Mystick Krewe of Shangri-LA announce 2009 Grand Marshal for their French Quarter Stroll."
The Mystick Krewe of Shangri-LA announced Community Activists Murray & Gerri Valene as their 2009 Grand Marshall for their Stroll through the French Quarter. The Vespa Cycle Group will ride in formation at the beginning of the Stroll followed by the Warren Easton High School Band leading the numerous horse drawn carriages and the other members of the stroll including Angela Hill (Grand Marshall 2008) as a VIP rider.
There will be Paper Maiche walking figures, Jazz and Marching Bands & walking clubs like "The Shady Ladies" and the always popular Vayla Lion Dance Team. Shangri-LA will also have the St. Charles Street Car Band who has their very own small scale replica of a St. Charles Street Car! Beautiful Horse Drawn Carriages will ride the STROLL ROUTE with Queen Shangri-La XXXVI Mrs. Cindi S. Mistrot, her Duchesses, honored guest's and Imperial Children on Saturday, February 14, 2009 starting at 2:00pm.
The Stroll will make it's way through the French Quarter accompanied by a Live Band: "The Riverside Ramblers"
The Krewe of Shangri-LA will not be putting on a traditional parade this year. They will present their 3rd Annual Imperial Stroll for 2009.The Captain promises a more eloborate parade when it returns to the streets in 2010
About the DVD The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2007, it is still racially segregated. Filmmaker Margaret Brown (Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt), herself a daughter of Mobile, escorts us into the parallel hearts of the city s two carnivals. With unprecedented access, she traces the exotic world of secret mystic societies and centuries-old traditions and pageantry; diamond-encrusted crowns, voluminous, hand-sewn gowns, surreal masks and enormous paper mache floats. Against this opulent backdrop, she uncovers a tangled web of historical violence and power dynamics, elusive forces that keep this hallowed tradition organized along enduring color lines.
