MANDEVILLE, La. — Bands are really the soundtrack to carnival season. Brass bands, second-line bands, and so on and so forth, but some of the most memorable music on the parade route comes from ...

Two top-tier singers will be the headliners at the annual party that wraps up one of Carnival's biggest parades the weekend ...

The Port City continues to rally behind the Excelsior Band as they fundraise to get a permanent home. Two of their veteran ...

MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — Parades, balls and throws — all a part of the Mardi Gras tradition in Mobile. But what about the sounds of the carnival season? No parade is complete without the bands, ...

Montgomery, Alabama will host its annual Mardi Gras Block Party on March 1 at the Court Square Fountain. The event feature live music from GumpTown Brass Band and Souled Out Groove, as well as fire ...

A fundraiser held Nov. 16 aimed at helping the Excelsior Band to have a permanent home and to keep their legacy going.

Mardi Gras parades can be a marathon — and no one knows that better than the people who march the routes on foot, past streets full of joyful, king cake-buzzed, bead-loving Louisianans. While float ...

Photo by Erika Goldring -- The Mardi Gras Indian band Cha Wa has released its debut album, 'Funk 'n' Feathers.' The band celebrates with a show at the Blue Nile on Friday, April 1, 2016. As a white ...

Fewer than two months until the festival, Mardi Gras Southeast Texas has announced its Friday headliner. On Feb. 9, local band Running on Credit will open and American rock band The Marshall Tucker ...

We reported on several Syracuse area Mardi Gras parties earlier this week. Now, even more downtown establishments are getting in on the Mardi Gras madness. Second Line Syracuse, a New Orleans-style ...

Family Gras will start two hours earlier Saturday, and with a shuffled entertainment lineup, to avoid the worst of the predicted rain at the free music festival in Metairie. The site opens at 10 a.m., ...