TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR! 🎲CHA WA SHOW ADDED🎲 THE JAZZ FEST STARS HAVE ALIGNED AND DESPITE THE RAINED OUT FEST - NO DICE HAS BECOME A HAVEN 🎲 New Orleans brass band-meets-Mardi Gras Indian outfit Cha Wa radiates the energy ofthe city’s street culture. Twice-Grammy-nominated, the band’s last album ‘My People’has been described as“pure joy, a distillation of generations of New Orleansexpression.” Now, entering a new chapter, the band’s 2025 album ‘Rise Up’ sees theband coming into its own to make its most mature and accessible album yet.“Mardi Gras Indian songs are inherentlysongs about freedom,” the band’s drummer JoeGelini says. “And that struggle is as relevant today as it’s ever been.”Popmattersdescribes the band as "a grand gumbo of singing, intoxicating rhythms, and deep funkgrooves that are impossible to resist.” "I’ve seen the future of New Orleans music and its name is Cha Wa."-Paste“Powerful, relatable, vibrant.”-NPR All Things Considered "Cha Wa, with bass lines played on sousaphone plus trumpet and two trombones, bringthe city's brass bandtradition to bear. Add sick jazz-funk guitar, and...full-beadedholiday regalia, and the result was a portable Mardi Gras Dance Party!"-Rolling Stone “Cha Wa blends Mardi Gras Indian tradition and modern pop magic.”–No Depression