Lundi meaning Monday, as in the Monday before Mardi Gras. We're up North, so it won't be as much fun as it is in the South, especially along the Gulf Coast.
Not many places even have celebrations. I was at Jewel grocery store earlier looking for a "King Cake" and was told, of course they don't have any. Most grocery stores on the gulf have them. That is a Mardi Gras tradition.
When I used to deejay, there was a lot of Mardi Gras music I'd be playing in the weeks leading up to it. Deejays around here act like they've never heard of zydeco, Cajun or Second Line music.
Listening to The Louisiana Party Collection CD right now and that is some great stuff including songs like "My Toot-Toot," "Zydeco Boogaloo," "Diggy Liggy Lo," "Jambalaya," "My Girl Josephine," "Jolie Blonde," ""Hee Haw Breakdown," ""Opelousas Sostan" and Zydeco Gris-Gris." And it has such greats as Rockin' Sydney, Jo-El Sonnier, Buckwheat Zydeco, Queen Ida, Beau Jacque, Boozoo Chavis, Zachary Richard and Beausoleil.
We wore our Mardi Gras shirts, hats and beads all this last weekend and ordered a King Cake from a Twin Lakes bakery for tomorrow at Donovan's. Maybe we can rustle up some jambalaya.
And, don't forget to tune in Tom Marker tonight at 9 PM CST on WXRT for his annual Lundi Gras show to get you in the mood. I'll sure be listening. www.wxrt.com. It be streaming. Bon Tons Roulet, or something like that.
Enjoy As Lent Starts Wednesday. --RoadDog
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Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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