West Coast Mardi Gras Music. A blend of rock, blues and swamp with a little funk thrown in for flavor.

9 MP3 Songs in this album (40:47) !
Related styles: ROCK: American Trad Rock, BLUES: New Orleans Blues

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The Wild Budsâ¨play West Coast Mardi Gras Music blending the celebratory music of New Orleans' Mardi Gras withâ¨the rock'n'roll music of their own West Coast. Itâs rockinâ, bluesy, fun and funky, and you can dance to all of it. Many musical stylesâallâ¨cookin' together in one fine musical gumbo thatâll rock your soul andâ¨make the good times roll! Their brand new first album, Positive Voodoo, is full of this feel good music. Theyâve taken their music to excellent clubs, fabulous special events, great parties and recently did their first live performance on the internet in the Second Life virtual world. Theyâve played Ashkenaz, La Peña, Fat Tuesday/â¨Mardi Gras and Summer Solstice Celebrations at the Berkeley Farmers' Market; the Peoples Park Anniversary Celebration; the Cajun andâ¨More Festival in MLK Civic Center Park, Berkeley; Benefits for Food Not Bombs at the Humanist Hall, Oakland; benefits for the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters (BACH); and many parties.â¨
The members of the Wild Buds have performed in many styles from alternative rock to jazz and from American traditional music to poetry-music fusion. Theyâve been in bands that include: Shadow Government, Jazz Sabbath, The Word-Music Continuum, Backstep, DETOUR, Colette Washingtonâs Naked Soul, Mud Boy and the Pond Scum, The Jammies, etc. With these bands theyâve played an amazing variety of venues: The Last Day Saloon, Stork Club, North Beach Festival, Burning Man, Venue 9, New Georgeâs, Starry Plough, The Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, Millâs College, Ecology Center, Catoâs, Cafe International, Codyâs Books, Above Paradise (Paradise Lounge), The Lord Buckley Festival, Berkeley Square, The Mabuhay, Nevada County Art Center, etc.