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Anne Schrager February 12, 2021Updated: February 17, 2021, 7:13 am
Bridey Murphy, 5, of Ingleside makes a Mardi Gras mask during a community Mardi Gras celebration held at the IT Bookman Community Center in the Ocean View neighborhood of San Francisco last February. Photo: Jessica Christian, The Chronicle
A typical Mardi Gras celebration involves gathering in the street for parades, brass music and boozy drinks. With the pandemic still wreaking havoc in the U.S., the party preceding the start of Lent moves to a mostly virtual setting, ensuring that the spirit of the special occasion lives on.
In New Orleans where millions gather in a normal year to celebrate the popular “Krewe of Bacchus” social club was one of many organizations forced to cancel its extravagant parade held before Fat Tuesday (Feb. 16). Instead, they unveiled an app called “Throw Me Something Bacchus,” in which fans can create an avatar, check out floats and marching bands, enter to ‘cat
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Ariathea is original tribal funk soul or music for your mind, booty and spirit . Singer Georgia Duder-Wood is joined by bassist Mat Fieldes, recently returned from a stellar international career based in New York and American percussionists Doug Brush, who has studied and performed with masters on five continents, and Eric Renick, principal percussionist with the Auckland Philharmonic and member of the Antipodes Percussion Project. With additional tracks by award winning producers The Sound Room, and Radio Base fm DJ Anirvan Deva (anirvandeva.wordpress.com), a night of hi-vibes and golden grooves is guaranteed.
Friday, 11 December 2020, 5:41 am
Dreaming
of Jupiter and winning in film with the musical story of
NASA’s Juno spacecraft, Independent kids music songwriter
and director Claudia Robin Gunn has won the special category
prize for ‘Best Production using 100% NASA Archive
footage’ at the 2020 NASA Cinespace programme at Houston
Cinema Arts Festival in the USA.
Claudia
Robin Gunn
Won for the music
video for her song of the same name ‘My Name is Juno Hello
Jupiter’, this production traces the incredible story of
the NASA Juno spacecraft through the medium of song, using
image sequences taken by the JunoCam, and other NASA archive