STEPPIN’ OUT: CARNIVAL TIME, Sunday, February 15 at 8:00 p.m.
If you’re a fan of WYES’ weekly arts and entertainment program STEPPIN’ OUT hosted by Peggy Scott Laborde, then you won’t want to miss WYES’ Carnival special highlighting the 2009 Mardi Gras season. Peggy and guests Errol Laborde, Mardi Gras historian, and Arthur Hardy, publisher of Arthur Hardy’s Mardi Gras Guide, discuss the Krewe of Zulu’s Centennial, how anniversary dates are calculated by Carnival krewes, the anniversary of the Doubloon; when parades face rainout and their back-up plans and the significance of this year’s February 24th date in Carnival history.