Parade
2025 PARADE COUNTDOWN
February 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Parade Theme for 2025:
I'm every woman
Queen-Select
Yolanda M. Singleton
2025 Queen-Select Mystic Krewe of Femme Fatale (MKFF)
Yolanda M. Singleton, a self-described "successful serial entrepreneur,” has been chosen as the 2025 Queen. A native of a Jackson, MS native and a proud graduate of graduate of the University of Mississippi Medical Center with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and holds an associate degree in nursing from Hinds Community College, and has completed courses in real estate and business at Jackson State University.
Singleton is the founder and owner of Xperience Jxn Entertainment – an entertainment conglomerate that has produced some of the largest concerts and hosted most major tours in the Southeast region, featuring national artists such as Mary J. Blige, Patti LaBelle, Fantasia, and Anthony Hamilton.
Singleton serves as mentor to “at-risk” female students in the Jackson Public School District Re-engaging in Education for All to Progress (REAP) program and she has been a professional Registered Nurse for over 30 years. She also advocates for victims of domestic abuse, human trafficking and for motorcycle safety. And, if that’s not enough, she is a real
estate investor, licensed life insurance agent, travel agent, notary public, philanthropist, financial strategist, and co-host of WMPR 90.1 FM’s “Cocktails and Conversations.” Her motto is, “I’m not just my sister’s keeper; I am my sister.”
Singleton, who serves serves on the Parade Throws and Social Justice
committees. is the first Queen-Select from another city/state to represent the Mystic Krewe of Femme Fatale.
Singleton's reign as the 2025 Queen will commence at the annual gala on Saturday, January 4, 2025, followed by the grand parade on Sunday, February 23, 2025.
Parade Grand Marshal
Swin Cash
Parade Grand Marshal Mystic Krewe of Femme Fatale (MKFF)
Swin Cash, the Senior Vice President of Basketball Operations and Team Development for the New Orleans Pelicans, will serve as Par5ade Grand Marshal for the 2025 MKFF Parade. Cash enjoyed an illustrious 15-year WNBA career, and won three WNBA Championships, two with the Detroit Shock in 2003 and 2006, and one with the Seattle Storm in 2010. She was selected as a four-time WNBA All-Star in 2003, 2005, 2009, and 2011. In 2016, Swin was
named to the WNBA Top 20 @ 20 honoring the most influential players in the first 20 years of the league. The former UConn standout, who played the forward position, helped the Huskies win national championships in 2000 and 2002 and was named the 2002 Final Four's Most Outstanding Player. She has won numerous awards including being inducted into the Naismith and Women’s Basketball Hall of Fames. Cash is also a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist.
When not working for the Pels, her women in sports advocacy initiative, She’s Got Time, or her nonprofit, Cash for Kids, she keeps busy as a wife to her husband – Steve Canal and mother to their sons – Saint Cash-Canal and Syer Cash-Canal.
Parade Route
- The Mystic Krewe of Femme Fatale parade will start at the intersection of Napoleon Avenue and Magazine Street in New Orleans.
- The parade will proceed north until St. Charles Avenue, where the krewe will turn east (right).
- The Mystic Krewe of Femme Fatale will follow St. Charles all the way to Harmony Circle, around the circle and back on St. Charles northward to Canal Street.
- At Canal, the parade will turn left and do a U-turn and then head to Tchoupitoulas Street, where it will turn south (right).
- The parade will end at the intersection of Tchoupitoulas Street and Poydras Street.
QUICK LINKS
CONTACT
info@mkfemmefatale.org
P.O. Box 58082
New Orleans, LA 70158
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