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Cha Wa exude the energy of New Orleans street culture By Ronnie Littlejohn Zack Smith Crossing a New Orleans brass band with a Mardi Gras Indian outfit, Cha Wa exude the energy of the city’s street culture. They’ve been described as “a grand gumbo of singing, intoxicating rhythms, and deep funk grooves that are impossible to resist.” My People, the band’s followup to their Grammy-nominated album Spyboy, feels like pure joy, a distillation of generations of New Orleans expression. But it also never fails to remind us how hard-won that joy was and still is not least in the tense, funky and explosive title track’s declaration, “My people, we’re still here.” ....
My New Orleans Beading Rhythms Big Chief Demond Melancon explores history, passes the art and attributes of beading to the next generation of New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians 12/31/2020 Aretha Franklin New Orleans is a gumbo of people of all different nationalities and races and all those people show a lot of love to each other,” says artist and Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief Demond Melancon. “I’m part of that gumbo.” Melancon, who resides with his wife Alicia in the city’s Bywater neighborhood, is a prominent “contemporary bead artist” and Big Chief of the Lower 9th Ward Young Seminole Hunters Mardi Gras tribe. His beaded portraits and exquisite Mardi Gras Indian costumes called suits all made with thousands of tiny colored beads are mystical symbols of an African American Creole culture that courses through the city’s veins and historic neighborhoods like the rhythmic motions of the Mississippi. To him, they are spiritual connections to t ....