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 ...

If Brad Pitt populates your party until 1 a.m., it’s probably going well. Six nights after his big Academy Awards win, Pitt turned up at the far less formal, far more lively Krewe du Kanaval ...

Kanaval: Haitian Rhythms and the Music of New Orleans, a new year-long project that explores and celebrates the influences of Haiti on New Orleans’ famed music, culture, and community is being ...

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.

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 ...

Arcade Fire's Win Bulter takes part in the 2018 Krewe du Kanaval festivities in New Orleans on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018. 'Kanaval' is the Haitian word for 'carnival.' Butler, his wife and bandmate Regine ...

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 ...

You didn’t have to draw it out of anyone. It’s an accepted part of reality.’ Teeming with sensorial details, humour and pain, Kanaval is an ode to the troupes, punters, flaneurs and meanderers who ...