Hot! Mardi Gras 2012

Patricia Clarkson will come with New Orleans, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. She will preside within the all-women Mardi Gras Krewe of Muses parade.

(Credit: AP) (CBS/AP) - Stars usually are on the way to New Orleans for Mardi Gras this specific year, gearing up to journey around parades along with play that total joyful celebration.

Actress Patricia Clarkson acquired your brass band wedding celebration when your woman arrived Wednesday with "The Big Easy," setting the stage for that all-women Krewe connected with Muses march to be able to move Thursday night.

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Muses kicks away a string with celebrity-studded parades prior to Mardi Gras on Tuesday. The parades are used by means of individual krewes - societal golf clubs this commit most of year assembling this detailed floats in addition to costumes.

The pop-rock band Maroon your five trips with the krewe Endymion about Saturday night, comedian and actor or actress Will Ferrell rides when cal . king with Bacchus on Sunday evening and rocker Bret Michaels will probably join Grammy-winning singer Cyndi Lauper within Orpheus about Monday.

Singer along with multi-instrumentalist Theresa Andersson will probably likewise often be highlighted within Muses, in addition to her float proceeds through brussels road she will carry out sounds through the girl future album "Street Parade," having a 50-piece marching band. It will be the primary time frame Andersson works the woman different tunes for the basic public. The album's let go time frame can be April 24.

Clarkson, the New Orleans-born star of the 2010 thriller "Shutter Island" as well as the the year 2003 play "Pieces connected with April," will probably be sitting with Muses aboard a red fiber-optic-lit float processed being a high-heeled shoe. Like alternative riders inside parade, Clarkson will certainly hands out high-heeled shoes or boots furnished by using glitter, beans and feathers.

"I am so priviledged for being the particular lady leading almost all associated with this," Clarkson said. "This is exactly how I prefer to rise each day, to a folk music group and women along with gifts along with statuette greetings me."