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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cha Wa, the Mardi Gras Indian funk band, is on tour, set to hit the road from East to West, in support of the release of their critically acclaimed album My People. The album, released by Single Lock ...

The Rumble, a new band made up of former members of Cha Wa, will make its debut Wednesday at the Maple Leaf and will take up a weekly residency through February at the Oak Street bar. The group has ...

Cha Wa are the latest artist to offer up an NPR Tiny Desk (Home) Concert. The NOLA torchbearers and Jazz Fest staples performed the first four cuts off their most recent LP My People, namely, “My ...

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 ...

Once in a while, a band comes along and brings something so special you have no choice but to love it. That band is Cha Wa. Founded in 2014, they released their third album, My People, 2021, a ...

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, 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 ...