{"id":320,"date":"2025-01-07T22:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T22:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neworleanskids.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2025-01-07T22:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T22:00:52","slug":"family-gras-2025-show-us-your-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neworleanskids.com\/tips\/family-gras-2025-show-us-your-kids.html","title":{"rendered":"Family Gras 2025: Show Us Your Kids!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-197 aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/family_gras_57b27592-f185-4610-a65b-786e948a7273-512x342-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This year, Family Gras will take place at Mardi Gras Plaza, in the 3300 block of Veterans Memorial Boulevard across from Lakeside Shopping Center. The festivities are scheduled for February 21, 22 &amp; 23 with free outdoor concerts. Past entertainers have included Amy Grant, Cheap Trick, Revisiting Creedence, The Oak Ridge Boys, Tyler Hubbard, Zebra, Amanda Shaw, Mad City, and The Creole String Beans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But Family Gras is more than just great concerts by big-name performers \u2013 it&#8217;s parades, food, an Art Market, kids&#8217; activities and even a run! The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mardigrasneworleans.com\/schedule\/parade-info\/parades-excalibur.html\">Krewe of Excalibur<\/a>\u00a0will roll on Friday,\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mardigrasneworleans.com\/parades\/magical-krewe-of-madhatters\">Magical Krewe of MadHatters<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mardigrasneworleans.com\/parades\/krewe-of-atlas\">Krewe of Atlas<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday. Come enjoy all your favorite New Orleans dishes at the Flambeau Food Court, shop for local art, photography and hand-crafted jewelry at the Art Market and don&#8217;t miss the face painting, hand-wax art and interactive games for kids 12 and under at\u00a0the Kids&#8217; Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mardi Gras is not just for grownups. Come join the fun this year!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Photo:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/VisitJeffersonParish.com\">VisitJeffersonParish.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&gt;&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mardigrasneworleans.com\/schedule.html\">See The Complete Mardi Gras Parade Schedule<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&gt;&gt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestneworleanshotels.com\/suburbs.html\">Find Hotels Nearby<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, Family Gras will take place at Mardi Gras Plaza, in the 3300 block of Veterans Memorial Boulevard across from Lakeside Shopping Center. The festivities are scheduled for February 21, 22 &amp; 23 with free outdoor concerts. Past entertainers have included Amy Grant, Cheap Trick, Revisiting Creedence, The Oak Ridge Boys, Tyler Hubbard, Zebra, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neworleanskids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neworleanskids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neworleanskids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neworleanskids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neworleanskids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neworleanskids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neworleanskids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neworleanskids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neworleanskids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neworleanskids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}