Mardi Gras Krewes and organizations bring the celebration to the people by parading through the streets. A Krewe or organization's parade is their opportunity to display their quirkiness, mockery and satire for our modern-day society, without hatred and divisiveness. A parade can be anything from the elaborate super-krewes like the Krewe of Bacchus, the Krewe of Endymion, the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club and the Krewe of Rex, just to name a few. These major parades will feature elaborately decorated mega-floats, tons of marching bands and many have invited celebrities to ride as Grand Marshall or even King. There are tons of smaller organizations that have lots of large floats and bands and groups marching as well as smaller Marching Clubs that parade annually like the Krewe of Boheme, Pete Fountain's Half-Fast Marching Club and the Krewe of the Rolling Elvi, just to scratch the surface. There are literally hundreds of organizations that parade and many more that don't parade-they just have a big party or a Mardi Gras Ball to celebrate Carnival. Here is a great article that gets into the variety of many of the parading organizations...there is truly something for everyone! [Remeber, no parades in 2021, but this will give you a hint of how massive Mardi Gras parading can be!]