NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN MARDI GRAS 2006 FEILD REPORT

This is a long-delayed bookend of sorts on my Ninth Ward Underground: Katrina and Beyond Issue. While these pages were intended to chronicle what I witnessed of the underground music activities during Mardi Gras, it wound up being primarily the story of the 9th Ward Marching Band and its extended family. Hopefully this will illustrate the fact that, despite a number of setbacks, the New Orleans scene is more than just alive... but kicking hard.

02/25/2006
9th Ward Marching Band does the 9th Ward Parade, Royal Pendletons, etc.

02/26/2006
Viva l'American Death Ray Music, MC Trachiotomy and El Tonios, Mad Happy, etc.

02/27/2006
Lundi Gras! 9th Ward Marching Band plays Proteus and Twilight

02/28/2006
Mardi Gras! Peaches, Mr. Quintron and Miss Pussycat

PHOTO GALLERY
No floats or any of that but of the above and more...

VIDEO
Five-minute mini-documentary with 9th Ward Marching Band footage and interviews

LINKS
More amazing pictures, accounts, artist sites, etc.

© New York Night Train , 2006