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NEW ORLEANS, LA-APRIL 29: Big Chief Monk Boudreaux performs with 101 Runners at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in New Orleans, LA on April 29, 2012. (Photo by Clayton Call/Redferns)

Hey Pocky Way: A Mardi Gras Indian Jazz Fest guide

April 23, 2018 by: John Swenson

If you go to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, you gotta go see the Mardi Gras Indians at the Heritage Stage. It’s the perfect place to hear this transcendent music, see the awesome beauty of full-suited Indians coming in their magnificent colors and become swept up in it. The performances on the Heritage Stage are unusual in that they are abstracted, formal presentations of the Indians as a stage show rather tha...

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