2023 Mermaid Parade in New Orleans
It’s been two decades since the old Mermaid Lounge shuttered. How many wanton late nights did we spend in that barroom under the thrall of Egg Yolk Jubilee? Mermaid had its own subculture of freaks, line cooks, oddballs, stevedores, weirdos, and plain folks who didn’t know how to color inside the lines.
2023 Mermaid Parade in New Orleans
A tiny sliver of that flavor was captured yesterday on the levee at the French Quarter as year one of New Orleans newest parading krewe took to the moonwalk and sashayed up the river to the newly remodeled Audubon Aquarium of the Americas. This is what we saw:
2023 Mermaid Parade in New Orleans
2023 Mermaid Parade in New Orleans
2023 Mermaid Parade in New Orleans
2023 Mermaid Parade in New Orleans
2023 Mermaid Parade in New Orleans
2023 Mermaid Parade in New Orleans
2023 Mermaid Parade in New Orleans
2023 Mermaid Parade in New Orleans
2023 Mermaid Parade in New Orleans