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As YouTube has moved towards curating more original content, the community video site has partnered with various producers to create original “channels”. One of these partners is Bonnaroo, who launched the Bonnaroo 365 channel just after Jazz Fest. Like the Bonnaroo Festival, it’s a mix of music, comedy, and other “good stuff”—the channel’s overriding theme.

Also like the festival, the channel gets inspiration from New Orleans. Today, Bonnaroo 365 debuted a series of five films called “Adventures in Mardi Gras”, filmed during carnival this year. The series includes five short mini-documentary videos: an interview with Big Chief Monk Boudreaux (above), a Shaggy crawfish boil at NOLA Brewing, snapshots of revelers on Bourbon Street, a group of friends hanging out by the Mississippi River at 7 a.m. on Mardi Gras morning, and a car trip through the Lower Ninth Ward. All five films were directed by Casey Neistat, whose “Make It Count” commercial for Nike went viral in April and has since logged almost six million YouTube views.

Check out the full “Adventures in Mardi Gras” series below.