Pulling a Monday All-Nighter (JOHN JURGENSEN, 2/17/12, WSJ)

For the New Orleans funk band Galactic, the marathon party of Mardi Gras culminates with an all-night concert. Next week, to mark Lundi Gras, on the eve of the city's annual Fat Tuesday bacchanal, the quintet will do a midnight-to-sunrise performance at the famed uptown club Tipitina's. They began the tradition unintentionally 12 years ago. "Maybe the crowd just showed up later that night, but suddenly, wow, the sun was coming through the window," recalls bass player Robert Mercurio. "Now we're the 'they play all night' band."

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 17, 2012 6:39 PM
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