2025 Parade
2025 Parade
2025 Parade
2025 Parade
It's Muses’ Silver Anniversary!
Muses turns 25 this year and wants to take this opportunity to give extra thanks to everyone who has made their parade happen over these past years. The past twenty-five years has been a labor of love for the many volunteering Muse sisters who dedicate endless hours to making the parade, choosing throws, working with charities, putting together events, and outdoing themselves year after year. Great love goes out from the krewe to the talented artists and sculptors who have brought the Muses parade vision to life. And a special appreciation for the Superheroes in the NOPD, NOFD, EMS and City of New Orleans who keep Mardi Gras rolling safely.
And for all of those who have come to the route year after year, through cold and rain and those perfect parade nights like tonight…Muses loves your enthusiastic cheers that have inspired the sisterhood for a quarter of a century. Time sure flies when you’re having fun!
- WDSU – Parade Tracker
- WWL – Parade Tracker
- Low Flyers – Bulletins
- Sky-Tracker – Muses Balloon
- Horse Unit – Lady Godiva Riding Club
- Sky Tracker Support Truck and Trailer
- Band – St Augustine High School - Lead by Band Director Mr Ray Johnson
- Marching unit – Walking Shoes and Butterflies
- Peaches (15) – NOCCA Support group
Float 1 – The Goddessey
The Muses are patrons of the arts and sciences, of knowledge. Almost every element of this float is illuminated to demonstrate how knowledge brings things to light. The waterfall is mirrored and reflects the crowd as well as light. The Muses loved to frolic on Mt. Helicon in the springs created by Pegasus’ hooves. This float is a combination of the origins of Muses as well as what they represent. Float Introduced in 2018.
- Band – L.B. Landry High School Marching Band – Lead by Band Director Mr. Wilbert Rawlins
Float 2 – Shoe: Honorary Muse 2025 – Rutina Wesley
The Muses Shoe carries the Honorary Muse, a woman who inspires our Krewe and our community. Float Introduced in 2004.
Our 2025 Honorary Muse is actress Rutina Wesley, star of filmed-in-Louisiana classics Queen Sugar and True Blood.
- Flambeaux (30)
- Band – John F. Kennedy High School – Lead by Band Director Mr. Keith Thomas
Float 3 – 2025 Culture Bearers
They are our Sheroes, the women who inspire us – the real super heroines of our community, our Culture Bearers. This float has been made possible with a grant provided by the New Orleans Tourism and Cultural Fund.
Katrina Andry, widely acknowledged to have reached mastery in woodcutting printmaking.
Ms. Linda Green, culinary icon known as the “Ya-Ka-Mein Lady.”
Givonna Joseph, founder and artistic director of the award-winning OperaCréole.
Doreen Ketchens, world-renowned clarinetist, aka “Miss Satchmo & The Female Louis Armstrong.”
Monique Lorde, award-winning published author and versatile artist.
Stella Chase Reese, president of Dooky Chase’s Restaurant Corporation and the Edgar and Leah Chase Foundation & an Honorary Imagineer with Walt Disney, Co.
DJ Soul Sister, internationally known DJ, vinyl collector and veteran WWOZ-FM volunteer show host.
Queen Tahj, New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian of the Golden Eagles Tribe, designer of the Super Bowl LIX logo.
We also pay tribute to the exceptional Honorary Muses who have led our procession each year. A few have returned to join us for this 25th anniversary celebration.
Margaret Orr 2024 - Riding
Irma Thomas 2023
Swin Cash 2022
Jennifer Coolidge 2020
Patricia Clarkson 2019 and 2012
LaToya Cantrell 2018
Tamron Hall 2017
Solange Knowles 2016
Sue Zemanick 2015 - Riding
Julia Reed* 2014
Ruby Bridges 2013
Liz McCartney 2011
Mary Matalin 2010 - Riding
Kimberly Rivers Roberts 2009
Marva Wright* 2008
Brenda Marie Osbey 2007
Becky Zaheri 2006
Charmaine Neville 2005 - Riding
Becky Allen 2004
Maria Giacobbe* 2003
Cherice “Queen Reesie” Harrison-Nelson 2002 - Riding
* Honored In memoriam
- Band – Edna Karr High School Marching Band – Lead by Mr. Christopher Herrero
Float 4 – Mt. Olympus Brass Band (Coolbone)
Coolbone has ridden with the Krewe of Muses for 25 years!
- Broken Heel Social Aid and Pleasure Club
Float 5 – Happy Are They Whom The Muses Love
The Muses Old Officers Float (aka the MOOF) has earned a coveted spot in the parade, and our hearts. No, the riders are not old, the float is.
- Band – McDonogh 35 Senior High School Marching Band – Lead by Mr. Felix Lewis
Float 6 – Bathtub – The Bathing Muses
The Bathing Muses hit the avenue each year for some good, clean fun! Float Introduced in 2004.
- Sky-Tracker – Bubble Machine
- Rolling Group – Les Bon Vivantes
- Band – George W. Carver Charter School – Lead by Eric French
Float 7 – Mama Duck & Duckies
Make way for Muses’ Mama Duck and Baby Duckies. Float Introduced in 2017.
- Sky-Tracker
- Band – Martin Luther King High School – Lead by Mr. Charles Brooks
Float 8 – Molly Marines Chapter LA-1, Women Marines Association
Women Marines Association members ride with us as a salute to women in the military.
- Band – St. Katharine Drexel – Lead by Morgan Stewart
Float 8 – Title Floats – Return of Super Muse, The Age of Sheroes
She’s back…after nearly twenty years away, SuperMuse has returned to New Orleans
to once again save our city. She’s brought some super friends, because with all the new villains out there, she’ll need all the help she can get! Welcome to the Age of Sheroes!
- Band – Fredrick A Douglass High School – Lead by Jordan Harper
Float 10 – The Origin of Super Muse
Nola Rising came home after Hurricane Katrina and opened her rotten, flooded refrigerator, thinking “How bad could it be?” We all know the answer to that! The volatile combination of spoiled milk, champagne, old Chinese food, nail polish and baking soda exploded, giving her superpowers and the mission to Save New Orleans!
- Band – Booker T. Washington School – Lead by Mr. Charles Jackson
Float 11 – The Black and Gold Widow
She protects a long list of Louisiana charities, even when she is not backed up by her army of athletes. Her generosity is her Superpower!
- Band – Livingston Collegiate Academy – Lead by Mr Dedric Jones
Float 12 – Yat Girl
When our average Catholic NOLA school girl fell headfirst into a pot filled with hot, spicy boiling imported crawfish - Kapoweeee!%@&! - she became Yat Girl! Soaked in cayenne pepper and ready to fight for da truth, just-us and the Yat way! Armed with peppers, lemons and those under-boiled potatoes, she’s Hot Stuff!
- Band – Eleanor McMain High School – Lead by Mr Herman Halphen
Float 13 – Spider Chad
Spider Chad, Spider Chad
More parade space than you ever had
Throws down tarps of giant size
Shows up with way too many supplies.
Look out! Here comes Spider Chad.
He dumps his hot coals down the drain.
It’s all about him and his Mary Jane.
Make space...here comes Spider Chad!
- Band – Walter L. Cohen High School – Lead by Tenell Moore
Float 14 – Welcome to Possum City
You’ve heard of Gotham City...well this is Possum City! And our hero Ratman has snuck out of his secret lair at the NOPD evidence room, where he hangs out with his sidekick Doobin and lots of doobies. He’s ready to rumble with Saffron and the Neuty gang!
- Band – Alice Harte (Heart Beat of the South) – Lead by Christopher Arce
Float 15 – PowerPuffed Gov
Forget about the Powerpuff Girls...in Louisiana, we have a governor who’s Puffed with Power. Huey Long believed ‘Every man a king.’ Jeff Landry has a plan for his own reign — ‘Make Me a King!’ The ghost of Huey is haunting the Capitol with his own commandment: “Thou shalt not outdo the Kingfish!”
- Band – Kipp Leadership – Lead by Shannon Haynes
- Marching Unit – High Steppers and ISL Circus Arts Kids
Float 16 – The Mylar Menace
Beware...he is lurking, confetti cannon in hand, around those gender reveals and birthday parties, hiding out in Party City and at the floral department of Rouses. He’s the Mylar Menace...and he has plans to take down the city of New Orleans! Don’t let that smiley face fool you. He’s a bad, bad balloon!
- Band – Kipp East Academy – Lead by Johnny Thomas
Float 17 – The Crafter
Got a broken table leg? Got a hole in your tailpipe? Got a pothole the size of Lake Pontchartrain? She can fix that. Need a wreath in a flash, or driven to encrust an object entirely in glitter? Call The Crafter! She’s got a hot glue gun, and she knows how to use it!
- Marching Unit – Camel Toe Lady Steppers
Float 18 – Childless Catwoman
The Childless Catwoman wields her mighty weapon: the Pen of Reckoning, capable of writing lyrics so sharp they can shatter delicate male egos. If you aren’t scared of her, you should be! After all, she’s got 248 million sidekicks armed with super-power friendship bracelets, and they are ready to sing into action at a moment’s notice.
- Rolling unit – Laissez Boys
Float 19 – Blunder Twin Powers – DEACTICATE!
Partners of inconvenience – not to mention incompetence – meet the The Blunder Twins. If we are not mistaken, their super costumes bear the logos of Entergy and the Sewerage & Water Board. And when they get together — OH NO! The whole city will come to a screeching halt!
- Marching Unit – Nola Cherry Bombs
Float 20 – The Scrimster
Scrimming away from his captors at the speed of a flying tennis ball, more elusive than the perfect bone… The Scrimster dodges darts and jumps out of windows with ease. This dog-gone hero has given our entire community a great big belly rub, and he’s run away with our hearts.
- Marching Unit – Pussyfooters
Float 21 – Super Costumes
Yes, kids, that’s a phone booth. In the old days it’s where we made phone calls when we were not at home. It’s also where an ordinary looking secretary or reporter, wearing a suit and horn-rimmed glasses, might transform into a superhero – complete with lasso, tiara and power bracelets. Because we know being super is all about the accessories!
- Marching Unit – Dead Rock Stars
Float 22 – Beyoncé
Some people need an atomic spider bite or an intergalactic flight from a birth planet to achieve superhero status. And some, well, some are just born SUPER
- Marching Unit – Beyorettes
Float 23 – The Hot Flash
The Hot Flash had been taking all the heat… but she has found a cure that’s better than high-powered air conditioning. It’s a steamy team-up with Mr. Freeze. Looks like the Iceman cometh!
- Marching Unit – Rolling Elvi
Float 24 – The Incredibles
Sometimes superpowers run in the family. We see it all the time in New Orleans; the Marsalises, the Batistes, the Nevilles and the Andrews are nothing short of Incredible.
- Marching Unit – Krewe da Bhan Gras
Float 25 – Miss Information
Behold the float of confusion, a glittering spectacle of half-truths. Miss Information is powered by a team of influencers tossing alternative facts instead of shoes. Power to the Sheeple!
- Marching Unit – Sassyracs
Float 26 – GI Jolene
GI Jolene has been through Super Boot Camp, and she’s changed her mind. Please, please, please take her cheatin’ man. You know you can.
- Marching Unit – Bearded Oysters
Float 27 – The Injustice League
Some supervillains wear black robes, wield great big gavels and have an evil plot to take away rights we’ve had for decades. Watch out, looks like they’ve got designs on even more.
- Marching Unit – Big Easy Rollergirls
Float 28 – The Riddler
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- Marching Unit – Kolossos Art Bikes
Float 29 – Kryponite
We all have our weaknesses that can take us down, be it a fondness for gambling or a love of first class travel. Just make sure your nemesis – or Lee Zurik – doesn’t get a hold of your kryptonite.
- Marching Unit – Bloco Seria
Float 30 – Super Buzzed & Cali Sober
SuperBuzzed and his sidekick CaliSober fought the Louisiana Legislature, and now the tasty THC-laden sodas bubble across this great state…to keep the state in a state.
- Riding Unit – Pink Slip
Float 31 – Sirens
Inspired by the luring creatures of Greek mythology, the Louisiana swamp and the emergency vehicles that traditionally signal the end of a parade, the Sirens float is like no other; it travels down the avenue on a cloud of smoke, closing out another amazing Muses parade. Float Introduced in 2013.
Happy are they whom the Muses love and Happy Mardi Gras!
- WDSU Parade Tracker - VOA