On Wednesday, November 6, Xavier University hosts a special presentation on the New Orleans cultural tradition that holds perhaps more weight than most: the jazz funeral. True, Crescent City culture ...
Jason Berry’s affection for New Orleans’ solemn funeral dirges and joyful second-line processions has seldom waned over the quarter-century or so that he has devoted himself — in fits and starts — to ...
AIKEN — The Joye in Aiken festival commenced March 6 with a New Orleans-style funeral parade with music, marchers, tossed beads and a horse-drawn funeral coach that circumambulated a block of downtown ...