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Masqueraders
1964 - 1971
How the Masqueraders was formed
After the New Orleans Cadets Southernaires lost one
half of it’s members to the Stardusters, the
Southernaires marched the 1962 Mardi Gras season with
the other half of the corps. After the parades were
over we tried to get more members over the next few
months but to no avail. Someone mentioned that the
Crescent City Rebels was a small corps also and they
might consider merging with us. The Cadets management
contacted Charlie Guy the Rebels director and a deal
was put together. The Rebels and Southernaires would
merge.
I suggested
the name Masqueraders (from carnival) and the colors
Purple, Green, Gold (from Mardi Gras ), and to ware
masks. The name and colors was accepted by the new
management which now included Charlie Guy as the interim
Corps Director, but we couldn’t
ware the masks. The first year 1963, for Mardi Gras we
used the Southernaires black pants w/ yellow stripe and
the shako w/red plume, also we had new, cavalier emerald
green shirts w/black ascots made and also a yellow cumber
bun. My time with the Masqueraders was only two years
because the management wasn’t happy with Charlie
Guy and was going to replace him with L.A. Gilmore again.
One half of this corps. Thought this was wrong and we
quit in December and asked Charlie if he would restart
the Rebels again, he did and that will be the subject
of the next article.
Submitted by Elroy Ingersoll

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