CHA WA *LIVESTREAM*

511 E 36th Street,Charlotte NC 28205

22 April, 2021

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CHA WA *LIVESTREAM* Mandolin Streaming Concerts Grammy-nominated Mardi Gras funk band based out of New Orleans. *Purchasing tickets via this link will help raise funds to save Neighborhood Theatre* Join Cha Wa for a special Earth Day celebration following the release of the band's "My People" album. The new release is a much-anticipated follow up to their Grammy-nominated album “Spyboy” and feels like a distillation of pure joy, encompassing generations of New Orleans musical expression. But it also never fails to remind us how hard-won that joy was and still is, not least in the tense, funky and explosive title track, with its declaration “My people, we’re still here.” $10 per screen ($15 for group) Tickets grant you 48-hour access to the stream in case you can’t join live. All ticket sales end when the livestream performance begins. CHA WAPopmatters describes New Orleans brass/funk/Mardi Gras Indian band Cha Wa's sound as "a grand gumbo of singing, intoxicating rhythms, and deep funk grooves that are impossible to resist.” And Paste flatly declares "I’ve seen the future of New Orleans music, and its name is Cha Wa." GRAMMY® nominated New Orleans brass band-meets Mardi Gras Indian outfit Cha Wa will return on April 2, 2021/Single Lock Records with My People, a new album that draws from the rich and vibrant street culture of New Orleans. Packed with a vivid assemblage of New Orleans sounds and stories, My People exuberantly infuses funk and African-inspired arrangements with the music of street parades and the Mardi Gras Indian community - a group of Black New Orleanians who pay respect to Native American tribes through wardrobe, music and dialect.