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IT'S CARNIVAL TIME!
It’s Carnival time, and we’re hitting the streets for feasting and toasting, dancing and prancing, masking and merriment. We’ll visit with Maroon Queen Cherice “Reesie” Harrison-Nelson of the Guardians of the Flame Mardi Gras Indian tribe, as she sews this year’s suit. Then we’ll chat with Cha Wa, who combine funk and feathers to create their Mardi Gras Indian-infused New Orleans brass band sound and style. Plus Mardi Gras music from the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, West Africa and Brazil, and right here in New Orleans.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Going Back to New Orleans Joe Liggins and the Honeydrippers
Creole Kings of New Orleans, Specialty - Ja-Ki-Mo-Fi-Nah-Hey Dr. John and Donald Harrison
Indian Blues, Candid - Mardi Gras Mambo The Hawketts
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mardi Gras - Carnival Time Al Johnson
Mardi Gras in New Orleans , Mardi Gras - New Orleans Music Rebirth Brass Band
Ultimate Mardi Gras , Mardi Gras - Life is a Carnival The Band
Cahoots, Capitol - Instrumental: Joe Avery's Blues The Eureka Brass w/ Percy Humphrey
Atlantic Jazz: New Orleans , Atlantic - Go to the Mardi Gras Professor Longhair
Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology , Rhino - Choco Mo Feel No Hey Preservation Hall Jazz Band
New Orleans Preservation Vol. 1 , Preservation Hall Records - All on a Mardi Gras Day The Wild Magnolias
Life is a Carnival , Capitol - Indian Blues Donald Harrison with Dr. John
Indian Blues , Candide - Instrumental: Discipline Meets the Offbeat One Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet
The 21st Century Trad Band , Basin Street - SEGMENT: Maroon Queen Cherice Harrison-Nelson
Listen - St. Lucia Nou Ka Pase Alan Lomax
recording 1962, - Chanson de Mardi Gras The Ardoin Family Band
Zodico: Louisiana Creole Music, Rounder - Closing Bed: Leger's Chase (The Mardi Gras Song) BeauSoleil
Dit BeauSoleil: The Mad Reel, Arhoolie
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Cissy Strut The Meters
The Meters Anthology, Rhino - New Suit The Wild Magnolias
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mardi Gras - Golden Crown Juan Pardo
Spirit Food , Big Chief Juan Pardo - Yankees Gone Mighty Sparrow
Calypso Awakening from the Emory Cook Collection, SI Folkways - Carnival Proclamation Lord Melody
Calypso Awakening from the Emory Cook Collection , SI Folkways - Tourist Leggo King Short Shirt
Ghetto Vibes , Charlie’s - Instrumental: Carnaval L' Aneeta L' Orchestra de Jazz Biguine
Antillaise Carnival Vol. 2 , Mondotone - A Voz do Morro Zé Kéti
Latin Grooves , RCA - Carnaval Cuarteto Patria and Manu Dibango
Cubafrica , Soul Makossa - Martinique 48 Sam Castendet
Sam Castendet , Mondotone - On Mardi Gras Day Michael White
Tricentennial Rag , Basin Street - Mardi Gras Coteau
Highly Seasoned Cajun Music, Rounder - Instrumental: Drum Improvisation No. 2 Baby Dodds
Jazz a la Créole, GHB - My Indian Red Danny Barker with Baby Dodds
Jazz a la Créole, GHB - Meet the Boys on the Battlefront The Wild Tchoupitoulas
The Wild Tchoupitoulas, Mango - SEGMENT: Cha Wa
Listen - Closing Bed: Walking Home Donald Harrison with Dr. John
Indian Blues, Candide
