Mardi Gras includes various stages featuring live music performances, special guest appearances and the world's top Electronica, Dubstep and House DJs. Mardi Gras will feature a grand parade that travels straight down Fifth Avenue, as well as, multi-dimensional street performers that will entertain on over 16 blocks throughout the Gaslamp
Quarter. Cutting edge lighting, sound
and visuals will enhance the venue as
they draw Mardi Gras
SAN
DIEGO, CALIF.--Gaslamp Quarter in
San Diego has a Fat Tuesday celebration
that some think is better than New
Orleans Mardi Gras. San Diego's Gaslamp
Quarter Mardi Gras is an anticipated, annual
celebration that some who have traveled
to Louisiana for the Big One actually
prefer. Why?
The answer lies in Latin sizzle,
adults-only, near-Mexico border partying state of
mind. San Diego features supreme weather
(some of the best in the world) and the
world famous California girls who are
stunningly clad in colorful costumes,
just for show. One of the city's hottest
celebrations of the year is mostly one
big party in the streets of the historic
district of San Diego once, serving as a redlight district with prostitution and
illegal activities. Today it is a
trendy, tourist attraction with
fantastic restaurants, nightclubs
and entertainment. Special events
throughout the year are hosted in
Gaslamp Quarter, which is able to close
off the streets and charge admission to
events for the 21+ crowd. Another event
hosted just weeks after Mardi Gras is
St. Patrick's Festival.
Mardi Gras celebrations & Fat
Tuesday -- Intersection of one
of the thirteen full moons with the
calendar's twelve months is the factor
which adds the greatest variation to the
Carnival season. Fat Tuesday is not the
same from year to year. Fat Tuesday and
Lent Wednesday are tied to Easter
celebrations, that can fall on any
Sunday from March 23 to April 25. It
falls on the first Sunday succeeding the
first full moon after the Spring
Equinox.
Gaslamp Mardi Gras draws
well over 40,000 revelers into the streets. This highly anticipated event will take over 16 blocks of the Gaslamp
Quarter and feature five stages of
world-renowned DJs, bands, entertainment
and one outrageous parade down Fifth
Avenue. Proceeds usually go to the Gaslamp Quarter Association, the 501(c)6 non-profit trade organization that protects and promotes the Gaslamp
Quarter as a National Historic District
and San Diego 's premier shopping,
dining and entertainment destination.
San Diego is the Festival
Capital of California (or one of them,
at least.) Here are some other festivals
in the 2nd largest city in California:
