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Showing posts with label Mardi Gras Indians. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Pelicans new theme inspired by Mardi Gras Indians [ Local Stories]
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Hey Pocky Way: A Mardi Gras Indian Jazz Fest Guide | Offbeat
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 than the community interactive street parades that the Indians engage in on Mardi Gras Day, St. Joseph’s Day and Super Sunday. During Jazz Fest, there are also Indian parades each day on the grounds of the fest that are closer to what goes down at Mardi Gras on the streets of the city. Fest goers are encouraged to second line along with those parades.
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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). |
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Thursday, April 27, 2017
Monk Boudreaux honored U.S. Postal Service Jazz Fest Mailer | Jazz & Heritage Foundation
MONK BOUDREAUX HONORED WITH 29th ANNUAL U.S. POSTAL SERVICE JAZZ FEST CACHET
Big Chief Monk Boudreaux of the Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indian tribe is the honoree on the 29th annual United States Postal Service's Jazz Fest Postal Cachet. This highly collectible mailing envelope, embossed with the Jazz Fest logo and an image of the group, will be unveiled on April 27.
Mr. Boudreaux, 75, is expected to perform at the unveiling ceremony, which is free and open to the public.
The ceremony takes place at 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 27, at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center (1225 N. Rampart Street, New Orleans, LA 70116).
The 2017 Postal Cachet will be available for sale at the ceremony starting at 10 a.m. The cost is $15 each. They also are available for sale at the U.S. Postal Service tent at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell, which takes place at the Fair Grounds.
Monk Boudreaux - born Joseph Pierre Boudreaux in New Orleans in 1941 - is the Big Chief of the Golden Eagles, a Mardi Gras Indian tribe. He is widely known for his long-time collaboration with Big Chief Bo Dollis in The Wild Magnolias, with whom he was friends since childhood.
In the late 1960s, Boudreaux joined the Wild Magnolias. In 1970, Boudreaux appeared with the Wild Magnolias at the very first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and also in the same year, the group released the single "Handa Wanda" on Crescent City Records, the first studio recorded music by the Mardi Gras Indians. In 1974, Boudreaux appeared with the Wild Magnolias on their debut album on Barclay/Polydor Records which featured Snooks Eaglin and Willie Tee in the supporting musicians. Boudreaux is exclusively featured on Golden Eagles' album “Lightning and Thunder,” a live recording released in 1988 on Rounder Records.
After being with the Wild Magnolias for over 30 years, Boudreaux left the group in 2001. Since then he has performed and recorded with artists such as Anders Osborne, Galactic and Papa Mali, in addition to leading his own group, the Golden Eagles.
In the recent years, he has also participated in the recording and tour of the Voice of the Wetlands All-stars, a band that also featured Tab Benoit, Cyril Neville, and Dr. John among others. He is also featured on one track in the New Orleans Social Club's album “Sing Me Back Home,” released in 2006. He currently performs regularly in New Orleans, both with the Golden Eagles and with other artists, including John Lisi & Delta Funk, with whom he has also recorded.
In 2010, Boudreaux appeared in the feature-length documentary “Bury the Hatchet,” directed by Aaron Walker. The film is an intimate look at the Mardi Gras Indian tradition, following Boudreaux and several other Mardi Gras Indian Chiefs in the year before Hurricane Katrina, through the storm and the years after. The documentary won best Louisiana feature at the New Orleans Film festival and a work-in-progress edit of the film won the Grand Prize and Intangible Culture Award at the Royal Anthropological Institute Festival of Ethnographic Film in Leeds, England.
In 2016, Boudreaux received a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship.
The U.S. Postal Service's Jazz Fest Postal Cachet program began in 1989 with a commemorative envelope featuring Professor Longhair. The list of honorees is:
2016 George Wein
2015 The Meters
2014 Rebirth Brass Band
2013 Trombone Shorty
2012 Kermit Ruffins
2011 The Marsalis Family
2010 Louis Prima
2009 Mahalia Jackson
2008 Deacon John Moore
2007 Harry Connick, Jr.
2006 Art Neville
2005 The Dixie Cups
2004 Aaron Neville
2003 Ernie K-Doe
2002 Ellis Marsalis, Jr.
2001 Dr. John
2000 The Neville Brothers
1999 Fats Domino
1998 Allen Toussaint
1997 Sidney Bechet
1996 Doc Cheatham
1995 Buddy Bolden
1994 Louis Armstrong
1993 Pete Fountain
1992 Irma Thomas
1991 Danny Barker
1990 Jelly Roll Morton
1989 Professor Longhair
Source: New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation is the nonprofit that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell. The Foundation uses the proceeds from Jazz Fest, and other raised funds, for year-round programs in education, economic development and cultural enrichment. For more information, please visit www.jazzandheritage.org.
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Mardi Gras Indians: A New Orleans tradition | CNN
Under a bright New Orleans sun, Mardi Gras Indians pose in their colorful costumes against equally colorful walls. They wear their feathers, headdresses and masks with a pride that spans decades.
It was their history, mythological and mysterious, that piqued the interest of French photographer Charles Freger. In 2014, Freger traveled to New Orleans to take a series of portraits of these costumed performers, who march annually in Mardi Gras parades.
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It was their history, mythological and mysterious, that piqued the interest of French photographer Charles Freger. In 2014, Freger traveled to New Orleans to take a series of portraits of these costumed performers, who march annually in Mardi Gras parades.
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| Mardi Gras Indians are African-American revelers who wear costumes inspired by Native American ceremonial dress. Photographer Charles Freger took portraits of them and their elaborate costumes last year. |
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Saturday, April 26, 2014
Mardi Gras Indian tribe co-op selling suits at New Orleans Jazz Fest | nola.com
For the first time a cooperative of several Mardi Gras Indian tribes are selling their suits, and pieces of the suits at the jazz fest. Their booth on the Fair Grounds at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is between the Fais Do-Do Stage and the Galaxy Stage (formerly the Gentilly Stage).
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| Photo by David Grunfeld, NOLA.com |
Friday, March 14, 2014
Super Sunday 2014 postponed due to rain | @OffBeatMagazine
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Monday, March 03, 2014
Mardi Gras Indian Queens stake their claim to an essential role in a singular New Orleans tradition | NOLA.com
For more than 100 years, black New Orleanians have "masked Indian," walking through the city's streets dressed in feathers and beads, shouting chants and rattling tambourines. Their hand-sewn suits are massive creations of elaborate beadwork, feathered headdresses and intricate inlays of jewels crafted in tribute to Native American and African aesthetics, that take up to a full year to make.
The Guardians of the Flame are one of dozens of gangs, or tribes, of Mardi Gras Indians. Led by the Big Chief, groups like the Yellow Pocahontas, the Mohawk Hunters and the Creole Wild West parade on holidays, such as Mardi Gras, St. Joseph's night and Super Sunday in mid-March.
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The Guardians of the Flame are one of dozens of gangs, or tribes, of Mardi Gras Indians. Led by the Big Chief, groups like the Yellow Pocahontas, the Mohawk Hunters and the Creole Wild West parade on holidays, such as Mardi Gras, St. Joseph's night and Super Sunday in mid-March.
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| Honey & Littdell Bannister at the funeral of Big Queen Barbara Sparks of the Yellow Jackets Mardi Gras Indians at Charbonnet-Labat Funeral Home in New Orleans, LA, July 26, 2008. Erika Goldring |
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Big Chief Bo Dollis reclaims title "Wild Magnolias" Mardi Gras Indians | Offbeat Magazine
Big Chief Bo Dollis has regained title to the name Wild Magnolias after a decade-long dispute between former manager Glenn Gaines and members of the Mardi Gras Indian gang. “Theodore ‘Bo’ Dollis now has clear, exclusive and unambiguous right to identify musicians as the Wild Magnolias"
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Bereaved Mardi Gras Indian chief captured in 2004 video by Jim Gabour is finally identified | NOLA.com
Eight years ago, Big Chief Peppy of the Golden Eagles sewed the most difficult suit of his life, one that contained several beaded portraits of his fallen son, U.S. Marine Sgt. Estabon Eugene, Jr. He dressed a grandson and granddaughter in suits that carried similar beaded portraits. In March 2004, filmmaker Jim Gabour captured those suits on video, as the chief sang a heartfelt version of the hymn "Indian Red" before that year's Super Sunday Mardi Gras Indian parade.
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Thursday, May 05, 2011
The Wild Magnolias and a Magic Handa Wanda | OffBeat
Given the plethora of Indian recordings currently available, it’s hard to believe that this was the first time that authentic, masking and sewing Mardi Gras Indians had combined their unique chants and percussion with a funk/R&B band. Mardi Gras Indians and their music had been waxed before. Jelly Roll Morton did piano versions of Indian songs on his Library of Congress interviews...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Mardi Gras Indians, New Orleans police meet to avoid conflicts on St. Joseph's Night | NOLA.com
Members of the Mardi Gras Indian Council met with police and city officials this week in hopes of avoiding any conflicts with police as they parade Saturday night, St. Joseph’s Night, one of the few days Indians wear their suits. The Indians said they called the meeting because almost no Indian holiday seems to pass without some report of police officers stopping Indians or telling them to take off their feathers...
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Photo: Steve Apple March 5, 2005: Creole Wild West Mardi Gras Indians |
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
'Treme' Mardi Gras indian costumes make it to Hollywood | NOLA.com
Costumes from HBO's "Treme" are a part of the the fifth annual Outstanding Art of Television Costume Design Exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) Museum. 
" Mardi Gras Indians costumes made here to stand tall in a special exhibit of TV costumes mirrored the return trip Albert Lambreaux's Indian suit made into flood-ravaged New Orleans in the premiere episode of the series. The hard way, all the way. By U-Haul...Read more via nola.com
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
New Orleans Congo Square Rhythms Festival - November 15 2009
Congo Square Rhythms Festival
Sunday, Nov. 15
11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Louis Armstrong Park
Performers include Ensemble Fatien (featuring Seguenon Kone, Dr. Michael White, Sunpie Barnes, Jason Marsalis, Margie Perez and others), Bamboula 2000, the Kumbuka African Dance Company, Moyuba, Tekrema Dance Theater, Mardi Gras Indians and many more. The day begins with an open drum circle, so bring an instrument and join in.
Plus a Congo Square Marketplace with numerous food, art and craft vendors.
Admission: Free.
For a complete schedule of performances, see the event web site: congosquarerhythms.com.
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame | The Louisiana Weekly
Big Chief Junior, 72, has remarkably masked Indian every year since he was 11 years old. He will be among the many Black Indians recognized at the 11th Annual Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Ceremony. The event takes place on Sunday, August 9, 2009, at the Ashé Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard.
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