Mardi Gras was an American, New York based, rock and roll group. They released several singles which were hits throughout Europe from 1970 to 1972, followed...
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Mardi Gras is the seventh and final studio album by the American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released on April 11, 1972 by Fantasy Records...
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Courir de Mardi Gras (Louisiana French pronunciation: [kuɾiɾ d maɾdi ɡɾa], French pronunciation: [kuʁiʁ də maʁdi ɡʁa]) is a traditional Mardi Gras event held...
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Mardi Gras Indians (also known as Black Masking Indians) are African American carnival revelers in New Orleans, Louisiana, who dress up for Mardi Gras...
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Mardi Gras in the United States is celebrated in a number of cities and regions in the country. Most of these places trace their Mardi Gras celebrations...
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Look up Mardi Gras or mardi gras in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mardi Gras refers to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after Epiphany...
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The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras or Sydney Mardi Gras is an event in Sydney, New South Wales attended by hundreds of thousands of people from around...
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The holiday of Mardi Gras is celebrated in southern Louisiana, including the city of New Orleans. Celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before...
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"Go to the Mardi Gras" or "Mardi Gras in New Orleans" is a New Orleans Mardi Gras-themed R&B song that was performed by Professor Longhair (real name Henry...
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The Wild Tchoupitoulas (category Mardi Gras in New Orleans)
The Wild Tchoupitoulas were originally a group of Mardi Gras Indians formed in the early 1970s by George "Big Chief Jolly" Landry. Landry, with his self-identified...
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"Mardi Gras Mambo" is a Mardi Gras-themed song written by Frankie Adams and Lou Welsch. The song's best known version was recorded in 1954 by the Hawketts...
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The Wild Magnolias (category Mardi Gras in New Orleans)
masking" traditions and performing New Orleans Mardi Gras music, extends at least back into the 1950s. The group's lead member was called the Big Chief, and...
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LVIII to February 11, 2024, and causing a conflict with New Orleans's Mardi Gras celebrations. On October 14, 2020, the league decided to move Super Bowl...
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New Orleans Baby Doll Ladies (category Mardi Gras in New Orleans)
The group’s “music ambassador” DJ Hektik scored custom tunes for this event. In 2010, group marched in its first parade on Mardi Gras. The group also...
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Annual Rock N' Roll Mardi Gras Tour. The album is composed of Mardi Gras themed music and an acoustic version of a song from the band's 2006 album Voodoo...
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Society of Saint Anne (category Mardi Gras in New Orleans)
"La Société de Saint Anne" is a New Orleans Mardi Gras marching krewe that parades each Mardi Gras Day. La Société de Saint Anne was founded in 1969 by...
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Rex (krewe) (category Mardi Gras in New Orleans)
Carnival krewe which stages one of the city's most celebrated parades on Mardi Gras Day. Rex is Latin for 'king', and Rex reigns as "The King of Carnival"...
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Carnival Memphis (redirect from Memphis Cotton Carnival MusicFest)
Carnival Memphis Association and its member krewes (similar to that of Mardi Gras) during the month of June. Carnival salutes various aspects of Memphis...
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Allison Montana (category Mardi Gras in New Orleans)
cultural icon who acted as the Mardi Gras Indian "Chief of Chiefs" for over 50 years. Tootie is revered in the Mardi Gras Indian culture as the Big Chief...
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Mystic society (category Mardi Gras)
A mystic society is a Mardi Gras social organization in Mobile, Alabama, that presents parades and/or balls for the enjoyment of its members, guests, and...
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Freedia. Bounce is characterized by call-and-response-style party and Mardi Gras Indian chants and dance call-outs that are frequently hypersexual and...
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Belmonde "Paris Sunrise #7" by Ben Harper "Paris Sunshine" by Mardi Gras (music group) "Paris Sur Mer" by Morcheeba "Paris Swing" by Dizzy Gillespie...
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August 6, 2019. Keith I. Marszalek (December 7, 2016). "Mardi Gras Indians and the music of Mardi Gras". The Times-Picayune, via mardigras.com. Archived from...
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Crash Crew (category American hip hop group stubs)
year, the group signed to Sugar Hill Records and released several singles including "We Wanna Rock", "Breaking Bells (Take Me to the Mardi Gras)", and "On...
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Celentano "After The Mardi Gras" by Al Anderson (NRBQ) "Ain't No City Like New Orleans" by Earl King "Ain't Nothin' Like It (Mad Mad Mardi Gras)" by AJ Loria...
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Songs from the Mardi Gras is the third and last solo album of former Undertones singer Feargal Sharkey and was released in early 1991 on Virgin Records...
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Bob James (musician) (category MNRK Music Group artists)
"Westchester Lady", "Tappan Zee", and his version of "Take Me to the Mardi Gras". James was born on Christmas Day of 1939 in Marshall, Missouri, United...
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Iko Iko (category Mardi Gras in New Orleans)
Jockamo means 'jester' in the old myth. It is Mardi Gras music, and the Shaweez was one of many Mardi Gras groups who dressed up in far out Indian costumes...
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Fiddlesticks (redirect from Fiddlesticks (music))
rarer over time as the music has changed, but numerous examples have been recorded, for example in the "Mardi Gras Jig" by a group led by Cajun fiddler...
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the same year, the group released the single "Handa Wanda" on Crescent City Records, the first studio recorded music by the Mardi Gras Indians. In 1974...
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