Handa Wanda’s, New Orleans -
Sunday, January 27 & February 3, 2008 [20-0810]
Unified Indian Practice @ Mardi Gras in New Orleans 2008
In episode #191 we went inside Unified Indian Practice with the Mardi Gras Indians at the Handa Wanda club at 2nd & Dryades in New Orleans the two Sundays before Mardi Gras. This follow-up program takes to the streets on Mardi Gras Day with recorded music by the 6th Ward All Stars, the Treme Brass band and Snooks Eaglin and actualities from the Unified Second Line Parade with the Hot 8 Brass band on Lundi Gras, the St. Martinville High School Marching Band at the Zulu Parade and the Wild Indians at 2nd & Dryades on Mardi Gras morning, the Backstreet Cultural Museum in Treme with Ernest Skipper and the Spirit of Fi Yi Yi in the afternoon, and the 6th Ward Brass Band in the streets of the 6th Ward on Ash Wednesday playing for the funeral of Big Fritz from the Money Wasters Social Aid & Pleasure Club. The narration was added March 29 at the Radio Free Amsterdam studio on the Singel canal.
Playlist 194
[01] 6th Ward All Stars: Yeah You Rite
[02] John Sinclair ID, Comments re: Mardi Gras 2008 & Opening Tokes
[03] Hot 8 Brass Band: Lundi Gras Second Line
[04] John Sinclair Comments re: Zulu Parade
[05] Zulu Parade @ Jackson & Dryades >
[06] Big Chief Peppy on Dryades Street >
[07] Crowd Noise & Wild Magnolias outside Handa Wanda’s >
[08] Wild Magnolias: Indians, Here Dey Come
[09] John Sinclair Comments re: Backstreet Cultural Museum
[10] Treme Brass Band: Gimme My Money Back
[11] Ernest Skipper & Spirit of Fi Yi Yi @ Backstreet Cultural Museum
[12] John Sinclair Comments re: Big Fritz Funeral
[13] 6th Ward All Star Brass Band: Under the Overpass >
[14] 6th Ward All Star Brass Band: What a Friend We Have in Jesus >
[15] 6th Ward All Star Brass Band: Knockin’ on Big Fritz Door
[16] John Sinclair Closing Comments & Outro
[17] Closing Music: Snooks Eaglin: I Went to the Mardi Gras
Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Music & crowd tracks recorded “live” by John Sinclair in the streets of New Orleans
Voice tracks recorded by Larry Hayden
Produced, edited & assembled by John Sinclair
Mastered by Henk Botwink
Posted by Larry Hayden
Executive Producer: John Sinclair
Special thanks to Celia Sinclair, Tom Morgan & Hild Creed, Big Chief Bo Dollis & Big Queen Rita of the Wild Magnolias, Glenn Gaines Jr, & Khalid Hafiz in New Orleans, and to Mary Jo & Eric at Eat at Jo’s and Sidney & Joeri at Hempshopper in Amsterdam
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