Everyone in New Orleans knows the essential Mardi Gras songs. The likes of “Carnival Time,” “Mardi Gras Mambo,” “Go To the Mardi Gras,” “Big Chief” and “Second-Line, Pt. 1” are as baked into the ...

Each record we did was by mistake. We had no plans. We would walk to the French Quarters and make up songs, play for tips every day after school, walk back from the French Quarters and make up songs, ...

All because it’s Carnival time, here are options for live music in New Orleans through Mardi Gras and Ash Wednesday. Tipitina’s hosts “Freedia Gras” starring New Orleans’ Queen of Bounce, Big Freedia.

Carnival season is in full effect and has been for weeks. Now, it's almost time for Mardi Gras! Beginning as a religious holiday observed prior to the Christian Lenten season, Mardi Gras has since ...