Thursday, February 14th
a week in New Orleans: day four
Mardi Gras Indians (Fat Tuesday, 2012)
Wild Magnolias
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Two Indian Tribes Meet in Treme
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jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Tag: Wild Magnolias
2013
2011
Friday, 6/3/11
scenes from New Orleans
an occasional series
Neville Brothers (with Irvin Mayfield, trumpet)
“Indian Red,” live, New Orleans (Jazz Fest), 5/8/11
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lagniappe
art beat
Lance Rosenfield, New Orleans, 2/5/08 (young Mardi Gras Indian preparing for his first Mardi Gras with the Wild Magnolias)
2009
Thursday, 9/10/09
New Orleans Music Festival/day 1 of 3
Here, in the city where concert halls are made of asphalt, is one of the most famous Mardi Gras Indian tribes, the Wild Magnolias.
Wild Magnolias, live, New Orleans, 2008
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lagniappe
“It was this kind of willful, wildly romantic attention to beauty—crumbling and fading beauty needing constant attention—that made this city [New Orleans] so unlike any other and such an unparalleled sort of environment for a builder.”—Dave Eggers, Zeitoun
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