NOLA.com

Cha Wa, drawing on New Orleans traditions, finds its own identity on new 'My People'

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 ...
NOLA.com

Cha Wa, a different kind of Mardi Gras Indian band, steps out with ‘Funk ‘n’ Feathers’

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 ...
Times Argus

Funk and feathers: Cha Wa brings New Orleans street music

New Orleans brass band tradition meets Mardi Gras Indian culture in Cha Wa, a Grammy-nominated Crescent City sextet that brings its infectious, funk-fueled street music to the Higher Ground Showcase ...
The Aspen Times

New Orleans band Cha Wa to open Jazz Aspen June Experience

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 ...
Jambands

Cha Wa Announce New Album ‘My People,’ Share Title Track

Cha Wa have announced a new record, titled My People. The new album will be released on Apr. 2 and according to a press release, it “draws from the rich and vibrant street culture of New Orleans.” ...
OffBeat

Cha Wa Announce New Album Commemorating 20th Anniversary of Katrina

Two-time GRAMMY nominated New Orleans-based, Afro-Indigenous funk collective Cha Wa announced Friday, June 20 the release of their new album Rise Up, out on August 29, the 20th anniversary of ...
BroadwayWorld

Cha Wa Announced For Carnegie Hall Citywide Series

Friday, July 26 at 6pm Part of Carnegie Hall Citywide Series FREE at Bryant Park Cha Wa's high voltage music fuses fat funky beats with New Orleans-style brass and Mardi Gras Indian spectacle. Lead ...
NPR

Cha Wa: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

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 ...
NPR

New Orleans Funk Band Cha Wa Talk New Album

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Joseph Boudreaux Jr. and Joe Gelini of the New Orleans funk band, Cha Wa, about their new album celebrating the sounds and culture of the Mardi Gras Indians. And finally ...
The Sheboygan Press

Cha Wa, Viento Callejero, Jim Jam and more to headline Levitt AMP Sheboygan Music Series

SHEBOYGAN - The John Michael Kohler Arts Center revealed the lineup for the fifth season of the Levitt AMP Sheboygan Music Series earlier this month. The family-friendly, free concerts, which begin ...
WKAR

New Orleans Funk Band Cha Wa Talk New Album

And finally today, even though this year's Mardi Gras didn't feature the usual crowded musical parade, a new album is bringing the culture and celebration of New Orleans directly to you. (SOUNDBITE OF ...