Twelfth Night (Jan. 6) will see more parading action this year as the Funky Uptown Krewe gets on a streetcar to ride along St. Charles Avenue after the Phunny Phorty Phellows.Something different is always welcome. We actually got something different for Twelfth Night a few years back when the "Societé de Champs Elyseé" started riding the Rampart Streetcar. The crosstown "rivalry" implied by that adds something fun. I'm not sure a second group riding the St. Charles line does. We've made a ritual out of meeting the Phellows every year and there's something about the mystery of it; the quiet evening broken for just the most fleeting glimpse of a party; that serves as a perfect thematic opening to the season.
The krewe was founded by a group of friends who gathered at Avenue Pub for the Phunny Phorty Phellows parade. "We thought, 'Why can’t we do this?'” krewe spokesman Craig Mangum said.
They used the Phunny Phorty Phellows as inspiration.“We didn’t want to step on their toes,” said Mangum, “yet we thought we could add something different.”
It feels like a second group passing by might break the magic of it a little bit. Or maybe not. It's just Carnival nonsense in any case.
Did they consider maybe trying to do this on the Canal line, though? Since we now have two Twelfth Night rides on two different streetcar lines, it seems like the natural way to expand the concept would be to get a third part of town involved. Maybe have some kind of toast where they all converge downtown... Invite the mayor or something... I don't know... somebody besides me needs to sell this idea.
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