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 ...

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 ...

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 appeared on Monday morning’s (Feb. 1) edition of Good Morning America. The band appeared remotely from New Orleans, delivering a performance and sitting for an interview. Cha Wa’s performance ...

Maybe it happened between performances in New Zealand. Or maybe it happened on the main stage at the Montreal Jazz Festival in front of 25,000 people. But somewhere on the road during the summer of ...

Cha Wa will perform Oct. 30 at the Fairhope Music Festival in Fairhope, Alabama. The plan, before a surge of COVID-19 Delta variant cases, was for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival to return ...

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 spirited New Orleans band Cha Wa will make its local debut tonight to mark the premiere of the reimagined Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience as the long-running annual music festival moves ...

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit ...

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 ...