This week’s edition of 15 Minute Live Performances (watch our previous 15 Minute Live Performances from rising stars UPSAHL and KANDLE) features New Orleans-based collective Cha Wa. Fronted by Joseph ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cha Wa appeared on Monday morning’s (Feb. 1) edition of Good Morning America. The band appeared remotely from New Orleans, delivering a performance and sitting for an interview. Cha Wa’s performance ...

Cha Wa is a traditional Mardi Gras Indians greeting in New Orleans that means “here we come” or “we’re comin’ for ya.” Appropriately, a hearty shout of “CHA WA!” is the first thing I hear out of ...

Maybe it happened between performances in New Zealand. Or maybe it happened on the main stage at the Montreal Jazz Festival in front of 25,000 people. But somewhere on the road during the summer of ...

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 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 ...