Dance Your Brass Off – Mardi Gras Celebration at Turf Club (February 17, 2026)
A Mardi Gras celebration at Turf Club with three great brass bands? Count me luckily in to a very fun evening.
Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras (also known as Shrove Tuesday) is the final day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide or Fastelavn); it thus falls on the day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is French for “Fat Tuesday”, referring to it being the last day of consuming rich, fatty foods, most notably red meat, in preparation for the Christian fasting season of Lent, during which such foods are avoided.
Cyrille Aimée – à Fleur de Peau
We Heart Music had the opportunity to chat with Cyrille Aimée as she embarks on a world tour to promote her latest album à Fleur de Peau out on Via Recordings March 8th with a stop at the Dakota on March 19th.
16th Annual Lawrence Mardi Gras Parade – Massachusetts Street, Lawrence KS (2024-02-13)
(BRANDON CLASEN reports and photographs [on actual film!] for WeHeartMusic.com) Everybody loves a parade! –...
Jazz Note #15 – Highlight a Town Part I
When TV Creator, David Simon, chose to set his new HBO series in post-Katrina New Orleans, critics wondered if he was going to bring the same Dickensian scope he brilliantly illuminated in The Wire. The short answer is no.