Marche Du Nain Rouge returns to Midtown with parade, costumes and more

(CBS DETROIT) – The sounds of reside music and other people dressed of their Marche Du Nain Rouge greatest rocked Midtown Detroit Sunday afternoon.

“We’re simply excited to be right here for Detroit to essentially rejoice what it means to be a Detroiter,” says Landsay Dowd, who dressed as much as attend this 12 months’s parade and gathering.

Now in its thirteenth 12 months, the parade acknowledges a legendary creature, the Nain Rouge. Inventive director for the gathering, Vince Keenan, says the Nain Rouge dates again to the founding of Detroit.

“Antoine Laumet de la Mothe Cadillac truly encountered a purple dwarf of the Straits and what he did, in all probability not one of the best thought, was chase the Nain Rouge out of city,” says Keenan.

One factor attendees do get pleasure from, although, is to occasion, gown up and have parades filled with floats to assist characterize the residents on this nice little bit of Motor Metropolis lore.

“Everybody’s , going round speaking with one another, commiserating and simply uniting collectively as a metropolis,” says David Indig, who was dressed as a raven to rejoice.