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It's Mardi Gras season and in North America, no celebration is more famous than the one put on by the people of New Orleans. For two weeks, local groups called Krewes organize balls, parades and dance ...

Arcade Fire's Win Butler and Regine Chassagne have partnered up with the Preservation Hall Foundation of New Orleans to form Krewe du Kanaval, a Mardi Gras parade that will take the streets early next ...

Each year on January 6, King Day in New Orleans, Carnival season begins, featuring numerous parade krewes marching throughout Mardi Gras in the run up to Fat Tuesday (also known as Shrove Tuesday), ...

Philadelphia will enjoy the pageantry, grandeur and excitement of their first Kanaval Ball at The Fillmore on March 20, 2022. The Haitian Carnival and New Orleans Mardi Gras-style event will explore ...

Krewe Du Kanaval will return for its fourth year, February 9-12, celebrating the cultural connection shared by New Orleans and Haiti. This year’s “bal” honors the Warrior Women of Ayiti and ...

Music is a form of prayer in New Orleans and across the sea in Haiti. It connects the living and the dead, the present with the past. Every year, in February and March, people all over the western ...

We're bringing you something special today. A documentary calledKanaval: Haitian Rhythms & the Music of New Orleans. It chronicles the history of Haiti and explores that nation's influence on the ...

For the first time, in 2020 Arcade Fire will headline the Kanaval Ball, the culmination of the hybrid New Orleans/Haitian Carnival celebration co-founded by two band members and Preservation Hall’s ...

In an intriguing essay entitled The Performance of Possibility, Myron M Beasley, professor of African-American Studies at Bates College, Maine, describes Leah Gordon's photographs of Haitian carnival ...

Much of what distinguishes New Orleans today from other American cities can be traced back to French and African influences from Haiti. The cultural ties go back more than 200 years, when 10,000 free ...