First Acts revealed For Liverpool’s Mardi Gras experience

A surreal masquerade ball with music, dance, costume and carnival, housed in Sefton Park’s iconic Palm House.

Frog & Henry will perform at Krewe Liverpool 2020 – The Mardi Gras Experience. Frog & Henry play really old dance music from New Orleans; party music from 100 years ago.

Beginning as street performing collective in 2013 on the streets of the Big Easy/Crescent City, the band is a truly international affair, with almost as many nationalities represented as members. The band boasts a reinvention of the worlds one and only unique foot operated Tuba Machine- which allows one person to play tuba and banjo simultaneously! See it played live at this surreal masquerade.

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Laird Howard Ashley Storey – icon of the underbelly of Liverpool’s boho scene for a couple of decades and counting, has also been revealed on the lineup.

Also known as “Howard Be Thy name” this cannon ball kid is the former ring master from the depths of the Magnet’s burlesque subterranean circus, later Mellow Mello’s answer to the Fonz, and an ever evolving Time Lord frolicking as Birdman, Magician or Wizard within the quantum leaps of The Kazimier.

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Currently the face of Lush – and their finest Dandy, the voice of pirate radio IWFM, this candid character is the people’s man about town, daydreamer of the airwaves, and Godfather to all the freaks and uniques! If you don’t already know him, you are soon never to forget him!

For more info the Mardi Gras experience visit The Palm House website, follow Krewe Liverpool on Instagram or contact kreweliverpool@gmail.com. You can buy tickets for this event here.

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