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If you'd like to take part in Mardi Gras festivities here are four traditions you should honor: King cake, beads, masks, and colors (purple, gold and green).
Flambeaux, which literally means 'torchlight' in old French, have been a New Orleans Mardi Gras tradition since 1857. The flambeaux marchers dance to entertain the crowd and make tips as they lead the floats along the parade route.
274 views Feb 22, 2022 Arthur Hardy leads a panel discussion on the world of Mardi Gras balls. Historians Errol Laborde, Frank Perez, and Tracey Thibodaux, president of the Original Illinois Club, discuss the origins, history, and traditions of the more exclusive Carnival societies illustrated with video footage and images from the holdings of The Historic New Orleans Collection.
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Let's start off with a little history of how this famous drink came about. O'Brien's is reported to have invented the hurricane cocktail in the 1940's. The story of the drink's origin holds that, due to difficulties importing scotch during World War II, liquor salesmen forced bar owners to buy up to 50 cases of their much-more-plentiful rum in order to secure a single case of good whiskey or scotch. The barmen at Pat O'Brien's came up with an appealing recipe to reduce their bulging surplus of rum. When they decided to serve it in a hurricane glass, shaped like a hurricane lamp, the hurricane was born.
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It's impossible to escape drinking a few too many hurricane cocktails on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Your saving grace the morning after is a visit to Café du Monde for beignets and coffee. But you don't need to be in NOLA to enjoy fresh-fried beignets. Since Mardi Gras is approaching, celebrate it the right way with this homemade beignets recipe, loaded with powdered sugar in true Café du Monde fashion!
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How long does Mardi Gras last? How many beads get thrown every year? Learn the facts and figures behind the big festivities in the Big Easy.
La Nouvelle-Orleans has French and Spanish roots. Spain took control of New Orleans in 1763 after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, which left lasting marks on the city’s street names and architecture. In 1800, the Spanish ceded Louisiana back to France but Napoleon sold the city and what was the Louisiana territory to the United States three years later as part of the $15 million Louisiana Purchase, April 30,1803. Although the French sold Louisiana, the native residents held tight to their Francophile ways, The Creoles, the American-born offspring of European settlers, many with French blood, created a sophisticated and cosmopolitan society in colonial New Orleans. From the streets of the French Quarter to Creole cottages, vestiges of the French still remain . As Americans prospered, the French and Creoles of New Orleans still socially rejected the Nuevo riche American plantation owners. So the Americans simply stayed across the neutral ground of Canal Street and carved out their own neighborhoods, from what is now the Central Business District, the Warehouse District and all the way up through the Garden District and Uptown. In the mid-1800s, the highest concentration of millionaires in America could be found between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, fortunes fueled by to slave economy and massive sugar plantations along the Mississippi River. In the late 19th century, jazz emerged. combing ragtime, blues, spirituals and the American songbook into something brand new and soul stirring. Music is a birthright in New Orleans and it’s always been that way. The French, Spanish, African, Italian, German, and Irish found common ground in their love of listening to and making music. While the 1920s is considered the Jazz Age in America, in New Orleans that age dawned in the late 1800s. While the roaring 20s were in full swing. New Orleans roared back ignoring Prohibition and welcoming travelers. It was a time of cultural excitement. Artists, authors and the adventurous discovered the French Quarter.
Many people often use the terms Cajun and Louisiana Creole interchangeably, and although there are many historical, linguistic, and cultural similarities between the two groups, they are very distinct in other ways.
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"Nawlins", the Crescent City, is a place where the local music and cuisine have a lot in common: they are both spicy, fused with a multicultural mix of ingredients, and once you've had a taste, all you want is more. Music Voyager arrives during the build up to Mardi Gras. The musical journey moves from the classic jazz at Preservation Hall to the sounds of trumpeter Irvin Mayfield at his club on Bourbon Street. Music Voyager catches a scorching jam with Cyril Neville and Galactic at the famed Tiptitina’s, and joins local legend Kermit Ruffins at his annual Mardi Gras morning barbeque party.
Shreveport, a city with rich musical history, is a crossroad between the deep African-American traditions of the South, country music, Western swing, and rockabilly that predated rock and roll and the spicy influence of Cajun and Creole music. Music Voyager is graciously hosted by rock star and blues guitar virtuoso Kenny Wayne Shepherd, who takes us to Leadbelly’s grave for an acoustic jam with local icon Buddy Flett. Kenny Wayne introduces Music Voyager to Maggie Warwick of the famed radio show The Louisiana Hayride for a special performance on the stage where Elvis first became a star. Music Voyager sits down with guitar legend James Burton for a demonstration of his pioneering guitar licks, followed by a grumble boogie party with the band Dirtfoot.
From the National Film Board of Canada comes this celebration of the music of New Orleans in this two-part documentary. 2-part series, 105 & 135 minutes.Discover the music of New Orleans. Learn how folk music from Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean meld and evolve into today’s jazz. Documentary filmmaker Andre Gladu explores the Creole culture and its influence on modern music. Explore how the melodies of Zarico, the distinct folk music of the Black Francophone Creole culture of southweste.
Radical, free and rebellious in attitude, jazz is out on the edge and always evolving. Ideal for music students new to the genre, this program introduces common musical elements of jazz, the origins of jazz in New Orleans, and the evolution of jazz music styles over the last century. A broad range of audio samples, historical footage and practical demonstrations are woven throughout this resource.