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Mardi Gras Celebration
"Joe Cain Days"

February 21 & 22,  2009

1 - 530 - 265 - 2692
Downtown Nevada City, California

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The Masquerade Ball. 

  • Scheduled for the night before the Procession
  • Live Cajun Music & Dancing
  • Costumes Encouraged but not Required
  • King & Queen will be Crowned
  • No Host Bar for those over 21
  • Tickets for the Event do go Quickly!

Order tickets from the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce at:
(530) 265-2692 or  (800) 655-6569

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The Annual Procession
& Street Fair
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  • Cajun Cooking fills the air!
  • Purple, Green, and Gold Balloons adorn the street settings.
  • Spectators cheer as the Masks Societies parade through town.
  • One of the finest Family Oriented Mardi Gras celebrations around!
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    The Joe Cain Society of California
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    Dressed as Chickasaw Chief Slacabamarinico,
    Joe Cain led a group
    of friends in dispensing "musickalities" to the usually serene streets of Mobile one Mardi Gras.
    (Courtesy The University of South Alabama Archives)

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    Prior to the Civil War, Mardi Gras was celebrated regularly in the South.  During the Civil War there was no Mardi Gras. The spirits of the people were down.  Several years after the war in 1866, Joseph Stillwell Cain got together with six of his friends in Mobile, Alabama.  On Mardi Gras day they paraded through the town making as much noise as they could so that most all the people came out to see what was happening.  History was made that day.  Joe Cain became a hero, and ended up appearing in every Mardi Gras celebration until his death in 1904.

    Nevada City was officially sanctioned in 1993 as the only city outside of Mobile, Alabama to celebrate Joe Cain’s Mardi Gras Celebration Days!

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