SF’s Mardi Gras & Fat Tuesday Parade & Festival in the Fillmore (2023)
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Fillmore Center Plaza | 1475 Fillmore St. San Francisco, CA 94115
Free / RSVP
Submitted by the Event Organizer
Fat Tuesday in the Fillmore returns to San Francisco with a free blues concert.
Celebrating Fat Tuesday in the Fillmore with great blues, Zydeco Music, a second line processional, creative costumes, good food and colorful beads, the Village Project will host this year’s annual Mardi Gras, San Francisco Style on Tuesday, February 21st.
SF’s Mardi Gras & Fat Tuesday Parade & Celebration
Tuesday, February 21, 2023 | 5pm to 10pm
Fillmore Center Plaza, 1475 Fillmore at O’Farrell
FREE – RSVP
- Free live outdoor community blues concert (5-8pm) w/ blues songstress, Niecey Living Single, along with Black Cat Zydeco, featuring Dwight Carrier
- New Orleans-style street festival w/ face painting, street artists and performers
- Colorful Beads
- Creative Costumes
- Second Line Parade (7:30pm) w/ SambaFunk and The David Hardiman 2nd Line Band – Starting and Golden Gate Ave. & Fillmore.
- After Party Masquerade Ball (8p-Midnight) w/ complimentary New Orleans cuisine, plus Mardi Gras drink specials and more blues and zydeco music at Origin Boutique Nightclub – Buy Tickets ($50 per person or $80 for couples – includes New Orleans-style dinner)
- Times and lineup subject to change
Celebrating Fat Tuesday in the Fillmore with great blues, Zydeco Music, a second line processional, creative costumes, good food and colorful beads, the Village Project will host this year’s annual Mardi Gras, San Francisco Style on Tuesday, February 21st, 2023.
Rain or Shine, the celebration again opens with a free community blues concert at the Fillmore Plaza, featuring blues songstress, Niecey Living Single , along with Black Cat Zydeco, featuring Dwight Carrier. The New Orleans style festival will bring San Francisco’s historic Fillmore Music District to life with Zydeco & blues, a colorful family friendly carnival atmosphere, and a second line parade led by SambaFunk and The David Hardiman 2nd Line Band. There will be face painting, street artists and performers.
The free blues concert starts at 5 pm and ends at 8:00 pm, followed by the second line New Orleans style parade down the Fillmore Corridor, culminating with the annual Masquerade Ball at the Origin Boutique Nightclub. At the Masquerade Ball, guests will enjoy New Orleans cuisine, Mardi Gras drink specials and more blues and Zydeco music, with Tia Carrol and Terri Odabi. (In case of rain, all activities will move inside to Origin Boutique Nightclub, 1538 Fillmore).
About the Village Project Jefferson Award winner, Adrian Williams is the founder of The Village Project, a youth service organization focusing on academic and cultural enrichment for youth and their families in the Western Addition. This annual fundraiser helps support an afterschool program and a free 8 week summer camp for underserved youth. The Village Project also produces Grilling in the ‘MO, A Senior Moment, A Senior Prom for the 50+ and a 7 day Kwanzaa Celebration.
Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.
Cost: FREE*
