The New Orleans Jazz
Festival Cultural Exchange Pavilion is usually reserved for displays and
performances by folks from foreign countries with traditions that harmonize with
those of the Crescent City. Haiti was featured in 2011. South Africa,
Martinique, Mali and Brazil all have taken turns in the spotlight. But this year
the focus couldn't come any closer to home. The tent, located near Congo Square,
will be a gathering spot for tribes of New Orleans' own Mardi Gras Indian
maskers, who will give festival-goers a peek at the artistic and musical customs
behind their spectacular Carnival street pageants.
Pavilion coordinator Valerie Guillet said the time was right to feature Mardi Gras Indians, not only because their colorful costuming and percussive music parallels other traditional celebrations in the African Diaspora, but the HBO television series "Treme" has made the uniquely New Orleans custom better known to a national audience. The scene from the first episode in which fictional Chief Albert Lambreaux appears specter-like in his glowing suit on a flood-devastated New Orleans street remains one of the series' most searing images.
Mardi Gras Indians symbolize New Orleans as surely as the St. Charles streetcar and St. Louis Cathedral, but some of the intricacies of their activity remain private and -- at least to outsiders -- mysterious. Mardi Gras Indians have performed on Jazz Fest stages and paraded the grounds since the event began in 1970, but this year the fest hopes to provide "a more in-depth view for the public," Guillet said.
Eight maskers will occupy the pavilion over the seven-day course of the festival, sewing suits,Find rubberhose companies from India. beading patches, building crowns and answering questions.TBC help you confidently buy mosaic from factories in China. Plus, the festival's Mardi Gras Indian parades will pause in the Cultural Exchange Pavilion to perform parade songs. Other maskers will attend the frequent Mardi Gras Indian music practices. In all, representatives of 30 tribes will circulate through the pavilion during the course of the fest.
Guillet said the aim isn't to provide a single definition of the complex Mardi Gras Indian tradition; it's to seek "a collection of definitions."
"What we are trying to do is get the answer from community members," she said. "We've asked people what it means to be a Mardi Gras Indian."
Three of the Indian maskers to be featured in the pavilion sat down for interviews last week,Our porcelaintiles are perfect for entryways or bigger spaces and can also be used outside, providing a cultural exchange preview.
Big Chief Keith "Keitoe" Jones, of the Ninth Ward Seminoles, will be a sort of master of ceremonies at the Cultural Exchange Pavilion. In a sleepy conversation earlier this week, Jones explained that he and his grown son had stayed up through the previous night until 5:30 a.m., working on his 2013 Mardi Gras costume. Each year requires a new design, decorated with uncountable numbers of caviar-sized beads, demanding hours and hours of meticulous labor. "Some nights you sew until daybreak," he said.
Jones' spare bedroom is blanketed with beaded mosaic patches. He demonstrated the heft of a Mardi Gras Indian suit by handing over his late wife's costume,There is no de facto standard for an indoor positioning system. which he estimates to weigh 50 pounds. He called particular attention to a dizzyingly detailed patch depicting a Seminole attack on British colonial soldiers. The shadow of the swirling ceiling fan above made the thousands Buy high quality bedding and bed linen from Yorkshire Linen.of clear crystal rhinestones in the patches glitter dramatically.
Pavilion coordinator Valerie Guillet said the time was right to feature Mardi Gras Indians, not only because their colorful costuming and percussive music parallels other traditional celebrations in the African Diaspora, but the HBO television series "Treme" has made the uniquely New Orleans custom better known to a national audience. The scene from the first episode in which fictional Chief Albert Lambreaux appears specter-like in his glowing suit on a flood-devastated New Orleans street remains one of the series' most searing images.
Mardi Gras Indians symbolize New Orleans as surely as the St. Charles streetcar and St. Louis Cathedral, but some of the intricacies of their activity remain private and -- at least to outsiders -- mysterious. Mardi Gras Indians have performed on Jazz Fest stages and paraded the grounds since the event began in 1970, but this year the fest hopes to provide "a more in-depth view for the public," Guillet said.
Eight maskers will occupy the pavilion over the seven-day course of the festival, sewing suits,Find rubberhose companies from India. beading patches, building crowns and answering questions.TBC help you confidently buy mosaic from factories in China. Plus, the festival's Mardi Gras Indian parades will pause in the Cultural Exchange Pavilion to perform parade songs. Other maskers will attend the frequent Mardi Gras Indian music practices. In all, representatives of 30 tribes will circulate through the pavilion during the course of the fest.
Guillet said the aim isn't to provide a single definition of the complex Mardi Gras Indian tradition; it's to seek "a collection of definitions."
"What we are trying to do is get the answer from community members," she said. "We've asked people what it means to be a Mardi Gras Indian."
Three of the Indian maskers to be featured in the pavilion sat down for interviews last week,Our porcelaintiles are perfect for entryways or bigger spaces and can also be used outside, providing a cultural exchange preview.
Big Chief Keith "Keitoe" Jones, of the Ninth Ward Seminoles, will be a sort of master of ceremonies at the Cultural Exchange Pavilion. In a sleepy conversation earlier this week, Jones explained that he and his grown son had stayed up through the previous night until 5:30 a.m., working on his 2013 Mardi Gras costume. Each year requires a new design, decorated with uncountable numbers of caviar-sized beads, demanding hours and hours of meticulous labor. "Some nights you sew until daybreak," he said.
Jones' spare bedroom is blanketed with beaded mosaic patches. He demonstrated the heft of a Mardi Gras Indian suit by handing over his late wife's costume,There is no de facto standard for an indoor positioning system. which he estimates to weigh 50 pounds. He called particular attention to a dizzyingly detailed patch depicting a Seminole attack on British colonial soldiers. The shadow of the swirling ceiling fan above made the thousands Buy high quality bedding and bed linen from Yorkshire Linen.of clear crystal rhinestones in the patches glitter dramatically.
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