IT'S CARNIVAL TIME!
From New Orleans to southern France, Trinidad to Brazil, we celebrate Mardi Gras masquerading and dancing to the beat of Carnival music. We’ll visit with Mardi Gras Indian Chief Monk Boudreaux as he suits up in handmade, feathered regalia and struts through the streets with his gang. Then we travel to southern France for the Carnival parade and music of Nice, and costumed revelry a few hours east in the wine country town of Limoux. Back home in French Louisiana, it’s the Cajun Courir de Mardi Gras where beggar clowns dance for a chicken to put in a communal gumbo feast. Plus calypso, New Orleans brass bands and rhythm & blues classics to keep the krewe mamboing through the end of Fat Tuesday.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Seven-Ay Pocky Way Jason Marsalis
Music in Motion, Basin Street
Go to the Mardi Gras Professor Longhair
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mardi Gras
Going Back to New Orleans Joe Liggins and the Honeydrippers
Creole Kings of New Orleans, Specialty
Come Let the Good Times Roll Earl King
Earl King: The Sonet Blues Story, Universal
Meet de Boys on de Battle Front The Wild Tchoupitoulas
Wild Tchoupitoulas, Mango
New Suit The Wild Magnolias
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mardi Gras
Instrumental: (Somebody Got) Soul, Soul, Soul The Wild Magnolias
The Wild Magnolias, Polydor
SEGMENT: Monk Boudreaux
Hiko Hiko Donald Harrison
Indian Blues, Candid
Quadrille Figure Six Blinky and the Road Masters
Crucian Scratch Band Music, Rounder
Instrumental: Masquerade George Michael, Fred William, Gustin Louis, Wilkinson Girard
Musical Tranditions of St. Lucia, West Indies, Folkways
Mardi Gras Coteau
Highly Seasoned Cajun Music, Rounder
SEGMENT: Carnival in Nice and Limoux, France
End Bed: The Second Line Stop, Inc.
Ultimate Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras Records
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Carnival Time Rebirth Brass
Ultimate Rebirth Brass Band, Mardi Gras Records
Drop Me Off in New Orleans Kermit Ruffins and Irvin Mayfield
A Beautiful World, Basin Street
Mardi Gras Mambo The Hawketts
The Cosimo Matassa Story, Proper
Little Jewel of the Vieux Carre Joe Barry
New Orleans Popeye Party, Night Train
Tootie Ma Is a Big Fine Thing Baby Dodds Trio, feat. Danny Barker
Jazz A'La Creole, GHB Records
Street Parade Earl King
New Orleans Blues, Tomato
Instrumental: La Bamba Trinidad Cement Limited Skiffle Bunch
Trinidad Carnival: Steelbands of Trinidad & Tobago, Delos International
Turning of a Picong
Calypso Awakening, Smithsonian Folkways
History of Carnival Attila the Hun
Calypso Carnival 1935-1939, Black Round Records
Way Down the Bayou Juan Pardo
Spirit Food, Big Chief Juan Pardo
Iko-Iko Dixie Cups
Mardi Gras in New Orleans Vol. II, Mardi Gras Records
Danse de Mardi Gras Steve Riley
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Rounder
Blues de Saoulard The Red Stick Ramblers
Allons Boire un Coup: A Collection of Cajun and Creole Drinking Songs, Valcour
Instrumental: Indian Blues Donald Harrison
Indian Blue, Candid
Jockomo Sugar Boy Crawford
Mardi Gras in New Orleans Vol. II, Mardi Gras Records
New Indian Blues Brother Tyrone and the Mindbenders
Mindbender, Brother Tyrone/Everette Eglin
Out in the Street Galactic (feat. Ivan and Cyrille Neville)
Carnivale Electricos, Anti-
Wade in the River Olympia Brass
Mardi Gras in New Orleans Vol. II, Mardi Gras Records
Walk Through the Streets of the City Joe Lastie and the Lastie Family Gospel
Joe Lastie and the Lastie Family Gospel, Preservation Hall
End Bed: Walking Home Donald Harrison and Dr. John
Indian Blues, Candid