Cha Wa is a New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians band on the rise. Following the example of the late Big Chief Bo Dollis and the Wild Magnolias, the city’s famous, widely traveled Mardi Gras Indian musical ...
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 ...