History
Ball and Parade History From 1981 - Present
| Year | Theme | King | Queen | Grand Marshal | Ball Location | Bands | ||||||
| 2013 | A Spanish Town Twinkie Ate My Ding Dong | Robert King | Whitney Vann | Gerald Woods | Baton Rouge River Center (11) | Delbert McClinton and Buck Town All Stars |
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| 2012 | It's Conival Time! | Edwin Edwards | Liz Fischer | Brian Nolan | Baton Rouge River Center (10) | King’s Ball Warbabies and Kenny
Neal Band Queen’s Ball Feliciana and BR All-Star Blues Band |
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| 2011 | BP Blows and Wiki Leaks | Hillar Moore III | Stephanie Vaughn | Chuck Stoewer | Baton Rouge River Center (9) | The Bucktown Allstars & Johnny Rivers | ||||||
| 2010 30th | XXXpress It | Tom Sylvest | Liz Walker | Nick Spitzer | Baton Rouge River Center (8) | BR Blues Society All-Star Band & Steve “The Colonel” Cropper and Friends | ||||||
| 2009 | Buy Yeaux Bailout | Rob Payer | Margie Moore | Jim “Batman” Spain | Baton Rouge River Center (7) | The Bucktown Allstars & Louisiana’s LeRoux, including Luther Kent, Jimmy Hall and Steve Cropper | ||||||
| 2008 | Flamingeaux Phil Predicts | Danny McGlynn | "Buffy" Struppeck | Alonzo Hunter | Baton Rouge River Center (6) | Mason McClain & Choices | ||||||
| 2007 | Quit Flocking Around and Pink Your Own Theme | Kip Holden | Roxanne Leachman | Bill Good | Baton Rouge River Center (5) | George Porter Jr. and Runnin Pardners & Marsha Ball (4) | ||||||
| 2006 | FEMAture Evacuation | Gary Rispone | D'Aaron LeBlanc | Robert King | Baton Rouge River Center (4) | Louisiana Revue | ||||||
| 2005 25th | 25 Flockin' Years | C.C. Lockwood | Laura McDavitt | Nelson Maddox | Centroplex Exhibition Arena (3) | The Warbabies & The subdudes | ||||||
| 2004 | Flamingos Gone Wild | David Applegate | Rebecca Breeden | Phil Brady | Centroplex Exhibition Hall (2) | The Boogie Kings (2) & Deacon John's Jump Blues | ||||||
| 2003 | La. Purchase – Name Your Price | Bill “Simple” Simon | Rachel Alainna Roach Giacone | Mike “Moe” Richmond | Sheraton Atrium (7) | Amy and the Hank Sinatras & The Boogie Kings | ||||||
| 2002 | Pink, White and Blue – Show Me Your Colors | Mike “Fozzie” Collins | Chris O’Neil | Doug Cossman | Sheraton Atrium (6) | Paula and the Pontiacs & The Radiators | ||||||
| 2001 | 2001 – A Spaced Out Oddity | Fred Raiford | Stephanie Phares | Doc L’Herisson | Argosy Atrium (5) | Neighborhood All-Stars & Luther Kent and Trickbag | ||||||
| 2000 20th | XXcessive MMadness | Randy Hutchinson | Amy Brassett | Carl Stages | Argosy Atrium (4) | Coffee and Marcia Ball (3) | ||||||
| 1999 | Leathers and Feathers | Jim Babin | Cindy Hills | Bill Brumfield | Argosy Atrium – 10th (3) | Bench Bar Boogie Band (4), Rockin Dopsie Jr. (2) & The Zydeco Twisters (2) | ||||||
| 1998 | Politically Incorrect | Rodney Carey | Joy McDonald | Ken Nolan | Argosy Atrium (2) | Elements, The Roebucks, Smack, Chris Belleau and the Zydeco Hounds | ||||||
| 1997 | See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil | Tom Lorio | Trish Carlisle | Dusty Kling | Belle of Baton Rouge Atrium | The Roebucks, Overhead (3), Wayne Toups | ||||||
| 1996 | Top Ten Reasons to Mardi Gras in Spanish Town | Rubin the dog | Lurline Hamilton | Max LaBranche | Varsity Theatre (3) | Bench Bar Boogie Band (3), Rockin Dopsie Jr. & The Zydeco Twisters | ||||||
| 1995 | Manias | Ron Zappe | Malaura Blanchard | David Applegate * Lon Hunter Honorary Not So Grand Wazoo | Varsity Theatre (2) | Bench Bar Boogie Band (2), The Bluebirds | ||||||
| 1994 | Neatness Counts | David Manship | Debbi Taylor | Jim Work | Varsity Theatre | Bench Bar Boogie Band, Marcia Ball (2) | ||||||
| 1993 | Krewesing Spanish Town | Holly Beal | JJ Stone | Bruce Childers | Centroplex | Overhead (2), Zachary Richard | ||||||
| 1992 | Louisiana’s Dirty Laundry | Frank Kean | Marsanne Goldsby | Evy Davis | Ramada Inn | Overhead, Good Rockin Dopsie (3) & the Zydeco Twisters (3) | ||||||
| 1991 | What If? | Ben Taylor | Renata Grunburger | Ted Hicks | Catfish Town Pilot House | Michael Wolf, Good Rockin Dopsie (2) & The Zydeco Twisters (2), Marcia Ball | ||||||
| 1990 10th | What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been | Ed Reed | Donna Britt *Pat Shingleton Honorary | Bob Downing | Old WT Grant Building (Initial Ball) | Good Rockin Dopsie & The Zydeco Twisters | ||||||
| 1989 | Hollywood Comes to Spanish Town | Bob Earl | Elizabeth Hamilton | Duz Hamilton | ||||||||
| 1988 | Louisiana – A Fantasy State | Bob Brodhead | Dorothy Daniels | John Glen | ||||||||
| 1987 | Louisiana, A Royal Miss – Chapter 7 | Steve Irving | Pat Norton | Mark Tesson | *Catfish Town | Tabby Thomas (5) | ||||||
| 1986 | Poor Taste is Better Than No Taste at All | Buckskin Bill Black | Anne Bolar | Stan Masinter | *Catfish Town | Kenny Acosta | ||||||
| 1985 | Urban Olympics | Tabby Thomas | Jenni Peters | Margo Hicks | *Lagniappe Festival Catfish Town | Tabby Thomas (4), The Beatnix | ||||||
| 1984 | *$@# Big Brother | Smiley Anders | Hilda Hulbert | Charles Fisher | *In neighborhood | Tabby Thomas (3) | ||||||
| 1983 | CATS | Price LeBlanc | Leslie Elliot | Don "Z" Zerinque | *In neighborhood | Tabby Thomas (2) | ||||||
| 1982 | Every Man a Mardi Gras King | Bobby DeBlieux | Mary Canella | Nick Spitzer Nat Canella |
On Bungalow Lane | Tabby Thomas (1) | ||||||
| 1981 | Michael Beck | “Kids beating on cardboard boxes”. |
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