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Mardi Gras Indians
LPO Celebrates Mardi Gras Indians with World Premiere Performance
The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) celebrates Carnival season with “Birth of a Culture” on Thursday, January 25, 2024, at the Orpheum Theater at 7:30 p.m. A concert for New Orleans, “Birth […]
Cha Wa Brings Spirit of Mardi Gras Indians to Life at d.b.a
On June 2, Cha Wa will take the stage at d.b.a on Frenchmen Street. Cha Wa is one of the city’s modern groups that maintains the tradition of fusing Black […]
Downtown Super Sunday parade of Mardi Gras Indians scheduled for April 10
The Downtown Super Sunday parade of Mardi Gras Indians will be held on April 10 along Bayou St. John beginning at 12 p.m. In addition to numerous Mardi Gras Indians, […]
Super Sunday parade of Mardi Gras Indians scheduled for March 20
Super Sunday is an annual gathering of Mardi Gras Indian tribes celebrating their heritage and culture in a magnificent display of hand-sewn suits, singing, dancing and chanting. The festival at […]
Super Sunday: A Significant Day for Mardi Gras Indians
Aside from Mardi Gras, the most significant day for the city’s Mardi Gras Indians is “Super Sunday,” always the third Sunday in March, close to St. Joseph’s Day (March 19). […]
Shane Lief and John McCusker, Jockomo: The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians
Whether you look forward to Super Sunday all year or you have no idea who the Mardi Gras Indians are, Jockomo: The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians will be […]
Chief of Chiefs: Robert Nathaniel Lee and the Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans (Book Review)
Robert Nathaniel Lee, renowned as Big Chief Robbe, tells of his lifelong journey in the Mardi Gras Indian tradition as carefully as author Al Kennedy does in capturing it in […]
Super Sunday 2018: Mardi Gras Indians In All Their Glory (Photos)
After being postponed a week due to the threat of bad weather (which, naturally, never showed up), Super Sunday 2018 finally took place on March 25. Below, see some of […]
St. Joseph’s 2018 Mardi Gras Indians Celebrations (Photos)
Though Super Sunday was postponed from March 18 to March 25, St. Joseph’s Day and Night on March 19 were filled with revelry. Photographer Kim Welsh documented the celebrations, beginning […]
Lifetime Achievement in Music: The Poet Laureate of Mardi Gras Indians, Monk Boudreaux
Monk Boudreaux was born to be a Mardi Gras Indian. It is not a career, a craft or a profession, though one needs to go through an apprenticeship to become […]
