Today is one of my favorite days of the year!
It's the culmination of the Mardi Gras season!
Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday. It's also called Shrove Tuesday, Carnival Tuesday or Pancake Tuesday, depending on where the celebration is taking place. No matter the name, it's a day of revelry that includes parades, parties and gastronomic indulgence before the Christian fasting season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. It marks the last day of the Carnival season, basically a six-week period of partying around the globe. What began as a holiday rooted in religious tradition has become a cultural phenomenon, leading to parties for the sake of partying, and not necessarily in anticipation of 40 days of penance between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday.
WHAT TO DO IF YOU GO TO NEW ORLEANS FOR MARDI GRAS
Mardi Gras Fever: Don’t be afraid to express yourself. At this point in time, Mardi Gras is celebrated by anyone and everyone.
Dance and make eye contact with people on the parade floats. You’ll get all the throws if you do!
See where the celebrations take you. If you see a band, go after them!
Eat a big meal before going out. New Orleans is filled with delicious food; line your stomach with it so you’ll survive to the next day.
Drink all the water you can tolerate. Water is your friend.
No matter how many years
Sweet Loretta & I have celebrated Mardi Gras together
the essential ya-ya vibe remains the same!
Big Chief Journeyboy is in full costume!
Mind Smoke Manor's Sgt @ Arms aka Sir Leroy is ready for party duty!
The Beer is on ice!
The Hurricane Mix has been mixed to the max!
There's a big ol' pot of gumbo simmering away on the stove!
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HERE'S SOME ESSENTIAL FAT TUESDAY SOUNDS!
The Meters - Mardi Gras Mambo
The Meters - They All Ask'd For You
Lil Queenie & The Percolators - My Darling New Orleans
WOMAN OR A MAN - MICHAEL DOUCET & CAJUN BREW
TWO-WAY-A-POCKY WAY – DIXIE CUPS
Meet De Boys On The Battlefront - Wild Tchoupitoulas
HOT 8 BRASS BAND - SEXUAL HEALING
“Carnival is a butterfly of winter
whose last real flight of Mardi Gras forever ends his glory.
Another season is the season of another butterfly,
and the tattered, scattered, fragments of rainbow wings
are in turn the record of his day.”
– Lafcadio Hearn
Theme From Game Of Thrones - New Orleans Swamp Donkeys
Kid Thomas - Medley: Milneberg Joys / Dippermouth
Rebirth Brass Band - Do Whatcha Wanna
Anders Osborne & Monk Boudreaux - Dive In The Gumbo
Buckwheat Zydeco - Hey Ma Petit Fille
TUNE IN WWOZ & GET A TASTE OF MARDI GRAS FEVER!
Throughout the day & night in New Orleans
WWOZ will be bringing the FAT TUESDAY groove!
Click on the icon above & dig the sounds!
Here's some shots from a Mardi Gtras hoedown we had
@ Mind Smoke Manor awhile back!
Good Times were had by one & all!
Sweet Fancy Moses!
The clock on the wall says it's time to finish up this here blog post
with some audio memories from WWOZ from back in the 80's
which was compiled by my fellow raconteur…
John C. Engelhardt AKA “Syracuse Cool”
Here's Syracuse Cool's Download Link
& catch some tasty Mardi Gras WWOZ Memories
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