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WYES presents the 2023 Rex Ball along with the historic Meeting of the Courts of Rex and Comus.
Description
WYES presents the 2023 Rex Ball along with the historic Meeting of the Courts of Rex and Comus.
Comus, founded in 1857, is New Orleans’ oldest Carnival organization. It stages its pageantry on the same evening as Rex, founded in 1872.
WYES host/producer Peggy Scott Laborde, along with Errol Laborde, Carnival historian and author of Mardi Gras: Chronicles of the New Orleans Carnival, and Will French, Rex Organization historian, provide commentary throughout the evening.
The program contains interviews with past and present Rex and Comus royalty along with some historical video vignettes, including a feature on recently discovered footage of the 1898 Rex Parade. Mardi Gras historian Arthur Hardy will also be interviewed.
Producers are Barbara Sillery and Terri Landry. Executive Producers are Peggy Scott Laborde and Jim Moriarty.
