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 ...

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 ...

Krewe Du Kanaval will return for its fourth year, February 9-12, celebrating the cultural connection shared by New Orleans and Haiti. This year’s “bal” honors the Warrior Women of Ayiti and ...

Much of what distinguishes New Orleans today from other American cities can be traced back to French and African influences from Haiti. The cultural ties go back more than 200 years, when 10,000 free ...

Growing up in Houston, future Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler wasn’t impressed by his admittedly erroneous concept of Carnival. “It never occurred to me to go to Mardi Gras,” Butler recalled recently.

For the first time, in 2020 Arcade Fire will headline the Kanaval Ball, the culmination of the hybrid New Orleans/Haitian Carnival celebration co-founded by two band members and Preservation Hall’s ...

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 ...

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 ...