Cha Wa, the Mardi Gras Indian band Gelini founded, is fronted by two vocalists with deep roots in the Indian community: Big Chief Irving “Honey” Banister of the Creole Wild West, and Monk Boudreaux’s ...
If the album “Spyboy” was Cha Wa introducing itself to the world at large, then “My People” is the band showing the world what it really can do, says vocalist Joseph Boudreaux Jr. Cha Wa’s 2018 album ...
Cha Wa is a New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians band on the rise. Following the example of the late Big Chief Bo Dollis and the Wild Magnolias, the city’s famous, widely traveled Mardi Gras Indian musical ...
New Orleans brass band tradition meets Mardi Gras Indian culture in Cha Wa, a Grammy-nominated Crescent City sextet that brings its infectious, funk-fueled street music to the Higher Ground Showcase ...
The spirited New Orleans band Cha Wa will make its local debut tonight to mark the premiere of the reimagined Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience as the long-running annual music festival moves ...
New Orleans-based keyboard player Stephen Malinowski died over the weekend. According to Live for Live Music, he was 25 years old and would have turned 26 on June 23. Malinowki, a New York State ...
Cha Wa will perform Oct. 30 at the Fairhope Music Festival in Fairhope, Alabama. The plan, before a surge of COVID-19 Delta variant cases, was for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival to return ...
Two bands direct from New Orleans — Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Cha Wa — will be bringing Mardi Gras to the Ridgefield Playhouse on Wednesday, Feb. 27. For more than 40 years, the Dirty Dozen Brass ...
We had the pleasure of interviewing Cha Wa over Zoom video! GRAMMY-nominated band Cha Wa will return on April 2 with My People, a new collection that draws from the rich and vibrant street culture of ...
The Rumble, a newly formed band made up of former members Cha Wa, made their debut at New Orleans’ Maple Leaf on Wednesday, Feb. 3. The band is primed to continue a weekly residency through February ...
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Joseph Boudreaux Jr. and Joe Gelini of the New Orleans funk band, Cha Wa, about their new album celebrating the sounds and culture of the Mardi Gras Indians. And finally ...
As a white Berklee College of Music graduate from Rhode Island, drummer Joe Gelini does not fit the typical Mardi Gras Indian profile. Historically, the music’s practitioners are black New Orleanians ...
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