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Portland, OR.

Recorded from KBOO FM, which is a local all volunteer community radio station. The station doesn't have a lot of power to broadcast. Consequently there are some drops, reception and other various problems like cutting in for interviews and such.

Big Chief Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolias—the funkiest New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian group, one of the funkiest bands on the planet—jump start the main stage on the Festival's opening night. The next afternoon the group backs New Orleans "Blues Queen" Marva Wright on the Sail On Sister! blues cruise and then a main stage set.

Also on Saturday, Big Chief Bo Dollis will appear in an interview/workshop focusing on New Orleans' Mardi Gras Indian tradition.

The Mardi Gras Indians, traditional black carnival societies of New Orleans, are as responsible for the birth of R&B as anybody, having influenced the city's musicians for years while remaining all but invisible to outsiders. The Neville Brothers, the Meters, and Friday night headliner, Dr. John, all owe a heavy musical debt to these carnival tribes, who fused their traditional call-and-response chants to the hot, biting percussion that underscores the Crescent City's historical ties with French Haiti and West Africa.

Among the most prominent of these tribes are the Wild Magnolias. With their blinding sequins and feathers (the likely inspiration for Dr. John's threads during his '60s 'Night Tripper' days) the Wild Magnolias are the prototype glitter band, providing nonstop, on-your-feet funk.