St. Joseph's Day Celebrated by Sicilians and Italians in New Orleans

Charles Marsala of AWE News interviews Peter Gilberti, President of the Italian American St Joseph's Society, Lena Prima and John Viola on the annual Pasta Fest, Altars, and the St Joseph's Day Parade presented by the Italian American St Joseph's Society.
The parade is one of the premier Italian-American events held post-Mardi Gras in the historic New Orleans French Quarter. The parade consists of beautifully decorated floats adorned by the Queen and more than sixty exquisitely dressed Maids, hundreds of tuxedo-ed Italian-Americans handing out green, white and red beads, silk flowers and blessed fava beans. Music is provided by bands and dance teams with sound trucks playing Louis Prima, Dean Martin and Sinatra music. Enjoy an evening of parades and dancing in the streets. Come sing, dance and even be kissed by an Italian!
The Italian American St Joseph's Society is a non-profit offering scholarships and in the spirit of St. Joseph's Day does a pasta luncheon at St. Jude's Community Center.

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  • @mgv19able
    @mgv19able Жыл бұрын

    Great video didn’t know that New Orleans had that many Italians and had a parade

  • @innertechnology7149
    @innertechnology7149 Жыл бұрын

    WOW! So nice seeing this- I want to go and see you all. Louis Prima's daughter! Pasta! And all done with respect to the Saint, the elders, the culture.....Love from Philadelphia

  • @testpilot1604
    @testpilot16044 жыл бұрын

    Look at all these beautiful people!! 🕰🎻🍂🎼🎹☕🌻🍂🏚🏗🍂🔔🎼🍂🍶🍞🍇🍷🥗🍝🍞🍷🦋🍮🛎🍂🍂🦋🏺🍝🌻🌂🚪🍶🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

  • @grumpygrampy5206
    @grumpygrampy52062 жыл бұрын

    We do celebrate St.Joseph's Day with novenas & altars in private homes. My Aunts have hosted a few of them, but our big celebration is the Feast of St. Peter, including a parade, outdoor Mass, carnival, sporting events, music & dancing in front of the altar at St. Peter's Square. My family has done several floats over the years. Many "'menicanis" often comment how it is a New Orleans type atmosphere.

  • @chrisventura1881
    @chrisventura1881 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful. Touches my heart. Love it 🇮🇹🙌🏽🇺🇸

  • @spideraxis
    @spideraxis3 жыл бұрын

    Bellissimo!

  • @SuperDonnaWanna
    @SuperDonnaWanna Жыл бұрын

    That is really nice.

  • @eusebiocalderon4261
    @eusebiocalderon42613 жыл бұрын

    I 💘 Italian from CHICAGO.

  • @grumpygrampy5206
    @grumpygrampy52062 жыл бұрын

    Viva San Giusseppe y Viva San Pietro from Gloucester, Massachusetts. Pop. 30,000, 35-40% of at least 1/2 Siciliano heritage. We just celebrated the feast of St. Peter, patron saint of fishermen, after a two year hiatus this past weekend. Since 1927, the last weekend in June before the 4th of July.

  • @busterducke4898
    @busterducke48984 жыл бұрын

    New Sicilian heritages

  • @victorglaviano
    @victorglaviano3 жыл бұрын

    My middle (Christian) name is Joseph... Anyone want to guess my birth month!

  • @jayreacts1356
    @jayreacts1356 Жыл бұрын

    I'm cool with this but not Columbus Day!

  • @tttgaming8762

    @tttgaming8762

    Жыл бұрын

    Us Sicilians don’t care what you like

  • @tttgaming8762

    @tttgaming8762

    Жыл бұрын

    Anglo

  • @jayreacts1356

    @jayreacts1356

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tttgaming8762 go back to Italy

  • @jayreacts1356

    @jayreacts1356

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tttgaming8762 us blond/blonde Scandinavian Caucasian people actually stepped foot first on North America in 992 AD and we ended up giving it to the Indigenous People of the Artic who r today known as Native Americans/First Nations and them only until 500 years later in 1492 when yo people the Mediterraneans took over and colonized them and then eventually in 1524 the Europeans joined in too

  • @lilythomas869

    @lilythomas869

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@jayreacts1356Then why did the whole world follow including the "blondes".

  • @marysalerno467
    @marysalerno4679 ай бұрын

    "Sicilians and Italians" yes there is a difference.