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IT'S CARNIVAL TIME!
From New Orleans to southern France, Trinidad to Brazil, we celebrate Mardi Gras masquerading and dancing to the beat of Carnival music. We’ll visit with Mardi Gras Indian Chief Monk Boudreaux as he suits up in handmade, feathered regalia and struts through the streets with his gang. Then we travel to southern France for the Carnival parade and music of Nice, and costumed revelry a few hours east in the wine country town of Limoux. Back home in French Louisiana, it’s the Cajun Courir de Mardi Gras where beggar clowns dance for a chicken to put in a communal gumbo feast. Plus calypso, New Orleans brass bands and rhythm & blues classics to keep the krewe mamboing through the end of Fat Tuesday.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Seven-Ay Pocky Way Jason Marsalis
Music in Motion, Basin Street - Go to the Mardi Gras Professor Longhair
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mardi Gras - Going Back to New Orleans Joe Liggins and the Honeydrippers
Creole Kings of New Orleans, Specialty - Carnival Time Al Johnson
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mardi Gras - Meet de Boys on de Battle Front The Wild Tchoupitoulas
Wild Tchoupitoulas, Mango - New Suit The Wild Magnolias
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mardi Gras - Instrumental: (Somebody Got) Soul, Soul, Soul The Wild Magnolias
The Wild Magnolias, Polydor - SEGMENT: Monk Boudreaux
Listen - Hiko Hiko Donald Harrison
Indian Blues, Candid - Quadrille Figure Six Blinky and the Road Masters
Crucian Scratch Band Music, Rounder - Instrumental: Masquerade George Michael, Fred William, Gustin Louis, Wilkinson Girard
Musical Traditions of St. Lucia, West Indies, Folkways - Mardi Gras Coteau
Highly Seasoned Cajun Music, Rounder - SEGMENT: Carnival in Nice and Limoux, France
Listen - End Bed: The Second Line Stop, Inc.
Ultimate Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras Records
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Carnival Time Rebirth Brass
Ultimate Rebirth Brass Band, Mardi Gras Records - Drop Me Off in New Orleans Kermit Ruffins and Irvin Mayfield
A Beautiful World, Basin Street - Mardi Gras Mambo The Hawketts
The Cosimo Matassa Story, Proper - Little Jewel of the Vieux Carre Joe Barry
New Orleans Popeye Party, Night Train - Tootie Ma Is a Big Fine Thing Baby Dodds Trio, feat. Danny Barker
Jazz A'La Creole, GHB Records - Street Parade Earl King
New Orleans Blues, Tomato - Instrumental: La Bamba Trinidad Cement Limited Skiffle Bunch
Trinidad Carnival: Steelbands of Trinidad & Tobago , Delos International - Tuning of a Picong n/a
Calypso Awakening, Smithsonian Folkways - History of Carnival Attila the Hun
Calypso Carnival 1935-1939, Black Round Records - Way Down the Bayou Juan Pardo
Spirit Food, Big Chief Juan Pardo - Iko-Iko Dixie Cups
Mardi Gras in New Orleans Vol. II, Mardi Gras Records - Danse de Mardi Gras Steve Riley
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Rounder - Blues de Saoulard The Red Stick Ramblers
Allons Boire un Coup: A Collection of Cajun and Creole Drinking Songs, Valcour - Instrumental: Indian Blues Donald Harrison
Indian Blue, Candid - Jockomo Sugar Boy Crawford
Mardi Gras in New Orleans Vol. II, Mardi Gras Records - New Indian Blues Brother Tyrone and the Mindbenders
Mindbender, Brother Tyrone/Everette Eglin - Out in the Street Galactic (feat. Ivan and Cyrille Neville)
Carnivale Electricos , Anti- - Wade in the River Olympia Brass
Mardi Gras in New Orleans Vol. II, Mardi Gras Records - Walk Through the Streets of the City Joe Lastie and the Lastie Family Gospel
Joe Lastie and the Lastie Family Gospel, Preservation Hall - Closing Bed: Walking Home Donald Harrison and Dr. John
Indian Blues, Candid
