About Us

The purpose of the Krewe organization is to celebrate the Mardi Gras season together as family and friends and to promote traditional Cajun family involvement in Mardi Gras. In February of 2006, a small group of family members talked about starting a Mardi Gras Krewe. By November, they had a few meetings and elected  Board Members.

 

Krewe members have been parading together for several years and the membership comprised of  families and friends from the SW Louisiana area, with members from Oklahoma and Arkansas.

 

The founding members wanted this to be a Mardi Gras Krewe that would follow traditional Cajun Mardi Gras celebrations in a fun and respectable manner, so that tradition can be taught and handed down to our children. Our main costume attire is from the Cajun Mardi Gras tradition of the high pointed conical hats or "capuchons" that parody the headress of noble ladies and that are also associated with dunces; and masks with animal features, often with hair or fur. During  our Mardi Gras parades we gather about dawn to assemble to hear instuctions from Le Capitaine and load up on our float and begin our run. The excitment and enthusiasim of Mardi Gras is obvious.

 

2013 Krewe de Kee-yaw Board Members are:

Le Capitaine - John LeJeune

Co-Capitaine - Harold Hanks

Advisor - Cindy Portie

Co-Advisor -Lou LeJeune

 

 

 

 

 

Our Website

Our website is important to us to keep members and guest informed of upcoming events and schedules. Please stop by often to keep updated.

History of Krewe

Our Krewe has worked hard over the last 6 years organizing events, parades, building and maintaining a float. We are now at a point in time for changes and would like to take this oportunity to thank everyone over the years for there help in us acheiving  some of our goals. However, we still have a long way to go to keep this Krewe going and setting new goals all the time. We would like to announce that we are currently recruiting new members for the upcoming parade seasons. We would like to have you join the Krewe for the 2013 Mardi Gras season, come and enjoy the fun parade opportunities that we provide. Information is available upon request for the 2013 season.