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For the first time, in 2020 Arcade Fire will headline the Kanaval Ball, the culmination of the hybrid New Orleans/Haitian Carnival celebration co-founded by two band members and Preservation Hall’s ...

Arcade Fire are performing at the 2020 edition of Krewe du Kanaval, the New Orleans festival that the band’s Win Butler and Régine Chassagne co-founded with Ben Jaffe of Preservation Hall Jazz Band.

Each year on January 6, King Day in New Orleans, Carnival season begins, featuring numerous parade krewes marching throughout Mardi Gras in the run up to Fat Tuesday (also known as Shrove Tuesday), ...

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 ...

Launched in 2018 by Arcade Fire’s Win Butler and Régine Chassagne with Preservation Hall’s Ben Jaffe, the Kanaval Ball celebrates the carnival traditions of Haiti and New Orleans. Proceeds from the ...

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.

Krewe du Kanaval, founded in 2018 by Win Bulter and Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire and Ben Jaffe of Preservation Hall Jazz Band, announced that Arcade Fire will headline the third annual Kanaval Ball ...

Much of what distinguishes New Orleans today from other American cities can be traced back to French and African influences from Haiti. The cultural ties go back more than 200 years, when 10,000 free ...

The COVID-19 pandemic upended our lives in 2020. While the virus created unprecedented global challenges, it also highlighted systemic oppression, racism and poverty that's been here all along. The ...

Arcade Fire have pulled back the curtain on the 2020 instalment of their annual Krewe du Kanaval event, revealing the band will headline the upcoming festivities. Krewe du Kanaval will take place on ...