Wild Tchoupitoulas Mardi Gras Indians @ Washington & LaSalle, Uptown Super Sunday 3.22.09

The Wild Tchoupitoulas Mardi Gras Indians at the sacred ground of Washington and LaSalle Streets in New Orleans, one of the most important corners in American musical & cultural history ~ despite decades of disinvestment and the demolition of the Magnolia visited upon the neighborhood by HUD and a private real estate development firm a year ago - the neighborhood remains a significant community gathering place, as it has for more than a hundred years.....
This is the new generation of the Wild Tchoupitoulas, a group that gained considerable fame in the 1970's when the late Big Chief Jolly and his nephews the Neville Brothers recorded one of the first New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian albums, the self-titled "Wild Tchoupitoulas".

Category:

Music

Tags:

• music
• art
• dance
• culture
• funk
• rhythms
• drums

[openparenthesis]

I LOVE MY CITY

[2raloo]

Yeah man. Mucho nostargia. I was a second liner for 3 years when George Laundry was a

Big Chief. JACKEEMOU andanDEI.

FONK is the essential part of my body and soul.

[MyVorpal]

My heartheart goes out to all those effected by the floods in New Orleans , i can't began to imagine what you all went through was like . But i do know what it feels like to leave a place that you care deeply about . To all the people that were forced to leave , and want to return i hope you get to go back soon . Never give up !!

[y2kattorney]

This is the most major awesome video...Owww...LUV ♥♥♥!!!

[shizloc]

I love my city also

[Tomlarson1]

That was one of my proudest days playing with the Wild Tchoupitoulas. Thank you for getting it on film.

[VercingetorixXIII]

@NewOrleansWoman i loved it there, I miss it so much, no where else on the planet but there, the belly button of the world... even seeing and listening to it in California is not the same, you have to have that smell...

[NewOrleansWoman]

I miss New Orleans !! I used to march in the Mardi Gras parades as a baton twirler with the SPARKLERS !!! I remember being so cold sometimes our fingers would get numb and I"d drop the baton and not even know I dropped it !! :-)