Get your bead bags ready and make sure you’re at Pier Park this weekend for the annual Mardi Gras at the Beach celebration in Panama City Beach. Every year the parade route is filled with themed floats, thousands of spectators and flying beads.
Here is the event schedule.
Friday
12 p.m. – Festival village opens
1 p.m. – Krewe of Dominique Youx Royalty Tent and float tours start
2 p.m. – Live entertainment begins
6:45 p.m. – Children’s Parade on Pier Park Drive
7 p.m. – Second Line Parade with Dixieland Jazz Band on Pier Park Drive
7:45 p.m. – Float christening
8 p.m. – Children’s pirate costume contest and pet costume contest
8:15 p.m. – Fireworks at City Pier
8:30 p.m. – Entertainment on Main Stage
Saturday
10 a.m. – Festival village opens
12 p.m. – Children’s activities and contests at BookIT.com Beach
1 p.m. – Live entertainment begins
3 p.m. – Gumbo cook-off begins
4:30 – Adult pirate and wench costume contest
6 p.m. – Main parade begins with 70-plus units
8:15 p.m. – Fireworks at City Pier
8:30 p.m. – Entertainment on Main Stage
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Hate float parade is sooo late this year as most people have Marda Gras parties that night. Also M.G is early this year and when sun goes down it can get really cold.
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Who had the brilliant idea of having the KIDS parade at 6:45pm and a costume contest at 8pm? Most kids go to bed by 8pm!!! I don’t like the Saturday night parade at 6 pm either, liked it better in the late afternoon.
Hopefully they will change that back next year.
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Loved all the photos I saw online… thanks for posting these!
I do agree, that was sorta late for the lil ones.
Cathy/Tennessee 🙂
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