There’s a new “Big Chief” in town. On Tuesday, Mardi Gras Records released "I'm Feeling Good! (Big Chief Remix)," a wholesale reinvention of Professor Longhair’s timeless 1965 Carnival ...

New Orleans was set to have a big 2025. The city hosted the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras season is especially long this year, stretching all the way into March. But the terrorism attack on New Year's ...

The New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic and Assistance Foundation is expanding its assistance programs to masking Mardi Gras Indians through the Big Chief Bo Dollis Memorial Fund. Masking Indian is an ...

Schulz said Mardi Gras has been the ultimate celebration of life in New Orleans since the 1800′s. However, Mobile, AL is considered to be the birthplace of Mardi Gras in the United States.

Type Archival materials Video recordings Citation Mardi Gras 2006: Remembering Big Chief 'Tootie' Montana, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Collection Rights Collection ...

Culture bearer Chief Bo Dollis Jr. will release his newest track “Young Time Indians/Indian Red,” from his upcoming album with The Wild Magnolias, Chip Off the Old Block, out June 13 on Strong Place ...

Historians at the Louisiana State Museum say Mardi Gras first arrived on U.S. soil in 1699, when French-Canadian explorer Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville celebrated and his men landed 60 miles south ...