Dance for a Chicken: The Cajun Mardi Gras

Cajun filmmaker Pat Mire gives us an inside look at the colorful, rural Cajun Mardi Gras. Every year before Lent begins, processions of masked and costumed revelers, often on horseback, go from house to house gathering ingredients for communal gumbos in communities across rural southwest Louisiana. The often-unruly participants in this ancient tradition play as beggars, fools, and thieves as they raid farmsteads and perform in exchange for charity or, in other words, "dance for a chicken."

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Travel & Events

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• Cajun
• mardi
• gras
• drinking
• Louisiana
• horses
• masks
• clowns
• folkstreams
• folkstreamer

[LSUgirl133]

i from louisiana and have cousins out in mamu

[stereolat]

Preciosa canción

[rudelol]

@WhiteWolf910 La Chanson de Mardi Gras

[WhiteWolf910]

What is the songs Name?

[jenkinscrowe]

Have you read Capitaine, voyage ton flag?

[Skittles2Go]

my favorite time of year baby

[krazycorey]

please post that song in full its great! so is the film.

[mornflame]

this is a good documentary, i recommend it.

[Creolelady281]

Thanks for putting this on. Needed this info for my book. Never seen the Tee Mamu in action but there it was. Thanks

[BarneyFife00]

Looks like a Mummer festival!!!