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CARNIVAL TIME 2019

It’s Carnival time, and we’re hitting the streets for feasting and toasting, dancing and prancing, masking and merriment. We’ll visit with Maroon Queen Cherice “Reesie” Harrison-Nelson of the Guardians of the Flame Mardi Gras Indian tribe, as she sews this year’s suit. Then we’ll chat with Cha Wa, who combine funk and feathers to create their Mardi Gras Indian-infused New Orleans brass band sound and style. Plus Mardi Gras music from the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, West Africa and Brazil, and right here in New Orleans.

HOUR ONE

  • Open bed: Going Back to New Orleans Joe Liggins and the Honeydrippers
    Creole Kings of New Orleans, Specialty
  • Ja-Ki-Mo-Fi-Nah-Hey Dr. John and Donald Harrison
    Indian Blues, Candid
  • Mardi Gras Mambo The Hawketts
    Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mardi Gras Records
  • Carnival Time Al Johnson
    Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mardi Gras Records
  • New Orleans Music Rebirth Brass Band
    Ultimate Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras Records
  • Life is a Carnival The Band
    Cahoots, Capitol
  • Instrumental: Joe Avery's Blues The Eureka Brass Band with Percy Humphrey
    Atlantic Jazz: New Orleans, Atlantic
  • Go to the Mardi Gras Professor Longhair
    Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology, Rhino
  • Choco Mo Feel No Hey Preservation Hall Jazz Band
    New Orleans Preservation Vol. 1, Preservation Hall Records
  • All on a Mardi Gras Day The Wild Magnolias
    Life is a Carnival, Capitol
  • Indian Blues Donald Harrison with Dr. John
    Indian Blues, Candide
  • Instrumental: Discipline Meets the Offbeat One Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet
    The 21st Century Trad Band, Basin Street
  • SEGMENT: Maroon Queen Cherice Harrison-Nelson

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  • St. Lucia Nou Ka Pase Alan Lomax recording 1962
  • Chanson de Mardi Gras The Ardoin Family Band
    Zodico: Louisiana Creole Music, Rounder
  • Closing bed: Leger's Chase (The Mardi Gras Song) BeauSoleil
    Dit BeauSoleil: The Mad Reel, Arhoolie

HOUR two

  • Open bed: Cissy Strut The Meters
    The Meters Anthology, Rhino
  • New Suit The Wild Magnolias
    Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mardi Gras Records
  • Golden Crown Juan Pardo
    Spirit Food, Big Chief Juan Pardo
  • Yankees Gone Mighty Sparrow
    Calypso Awakening from the Emory Cook Collection, SI Folkways
  • Carnival Proclamation Lord Melody
    Calypso Awakening from teh Emory Cook Collection, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Tourist Leggo King Short Shirt
    Ghetto Vibes, Charlie's Records
  • Instrumental: Carnaval L' Aneeta L'Orchestra de Jazz Biguine
    Antillaise Carnival Vol. 2, Mondotone
  • A Voz do Morro Zé Kéti
    Latin Grooves, RCA
  • Carnaval Cuarteto Patria and Manu Dibango
    Cubafrica, Soul Makossa
  • Martinique 48 Sam Castendet
    Antillaise Carnival Vol. 1, Mondotone
  • On Mardi Gras Day Michael White
    Tricentennial Rag, Basin Street
  • Mardi Gras Coteau
    Highly Seasoned Cajun Music, Rounder
  • Instrumental: Drum Improvisation No. 2 Baby Dodds
    Jazz a la Créole, GHB Records
  • My Indian Red Danny Barker with Baby Dodds
    Jazz a la Créole, GHB Records
  • Meet the Boys on the Battlefront The Wild Tchoupitoulas
    The Wild Tchoupitoulas, Mango
  • SEGMENT: Cha Wa

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  • Closing Bed: Walking Home Donald Harrison with Dr. John
    Indian Blues, Candide

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