Pete Fountain's Half-Fast Marching Band
The Half-Fast Walking Club is a New Orleans Mardi Gras krewe led by Pete Fountain.
Originally all on foot, in recent decades it has also featured one or two small floats.
Fountain and other local jazz musicians play through much of the parade.
The krewe's current route, basically unchanged since the mid-1970s,
starts very early on Mardi Gras morning, at world famous Commander's Palace Restaurant
on Washington Avenue in the Garden District. The krewe then proceeds downtown
on St. Charles Avenue and after a brief interlude on Canal Street, enters
the French Quarter at Bourbon Street winds around the Quarter and eventually ends up
at the New Orleans Riverfront Hilton in the early afternoon.
