It's Mardi Gras season and in North America, no celebration is more famous than the one put on by the people of New Orleans. For two weeks, local groups called Krewes organize balls, parades and dance ...

Celebrate over 300 years of Haitian and New Orleans history at Kanaval Ball February 14. The two-day Krewe Du Kanaval Experience will pay homage to the longstanding relationship between the two rich ...

If Brad Pitt populates your party until 1 a.m., it’s probably going well. Six nights after his big Academy Awards win, Pitt turned up at the far less formal, far more lively Krewe du Kanaval ...

The post Arcade Fire Play First Show in Two Years at New Orleans’ Kanaval Ball: Video + Setlist appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Arcade Fire headlined the 2020 Kanaval Ball in New Orleans on ...

Arcade Fire's Win Butler and Regine Chassagne have partnered up with the Preservation Hall Foundation of New Orleans to form Krewe du Kanaval, a Mardi Gras parade that will take the streets early next ...

WXPN is bringing the excitement of Haitian Carnival and Mardi Gras to Philadelphia this month, as part of their year-long project exploring Haiti's influence on New Orleans. “Kanaval Ball will bring ...

NEW ORLEANS – Although the historical relationship between Haiti and New Orleans dates back for more than two hundred years, Krewe du Kanaval’s conception can be traced back to 2015, when Win Butler ...

Music is a form of prayer in New Orleans and across the sea in Haiti. It connects the living and the dead, the present with the past. Every year, in February and March, people all over the western ...

In an intriguing essay entitled The Performance of Possibility, Myron M Beasley, professor of African-American Studies at Bates College, Maine, describes Leah Gordon's photographs of Haitian carnival ...