Halloween Costume Party and Parade Supports Rebuilding in New Orleans

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 – NEW ORLEANS, LA:  The Third Annual Anba Dlo Festival will be held on Halloween Eve, Saturday, October 30 from 7 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. at the New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave. in the Marigny. This year’s event, Apology to the Waters 2010, is a 21+ costume event. Admission is $20, including an open bar. Advance tickets are available at www.neworleanshealingcenter.org.

Anba Dlo (pronounced 'Ahn bahd-low') is a funky and interactive community festival celebrating the multicultural and artistic heritage of New Orleans. This year’s event will feature a costume parade and contest, outdoor live music stage, DJs, trance/spiritual music room, fire dancers and acrobats, and an art exhibit. All of these activities will be centered on an onsite water sculpture created from Katrina debris and assembled by local artists and community members.

The Anba Dlo costume parade will start at 6:30 p.m. at Markey Park. Everyone is invited to join this kick-off to the celebration. The Radical Faeries will lead the parade through the streets of the Bywater and Marigny to the New Orleans Healing Center to join the Halloween festivities.

This year’s festival will boast performers such as Cyril Nevillle and his Allstars, Philip Manuel, John Mooney and Bluesiana, 101 Runners, Coco Robicheaux, , and Felice Mitchel Guimont. The extensive music line-up this year also features Karmic Foundation DJ, Tom Harvey,  and music on the Sacred Music Stage, with performances by Michael Skinkus and Moyuba, Sean Johnson, Wild Lotus Band, and Kora Konnection.

The 3rd Annual Anba Dlo is presented by the New Orleans Hope and Heritage Project and the New Orleans Healing Center.  The center, scheduled to open in 2010, is a multi-use community space that will provide a wide range of activities and services from childcare to organic groceries to a street university.
 
Sponsors of Anba Dlo are La Source Ancienne Ounfo, Inc., The New Orleans Hope and Heritage Project, Karmic Foundation, and the Criminal Sheriff’s Office.

For more information on Anba Dlo, New Orleans Healing Center and other events hosted there, visit www.neworleanshealingcenter.org
 

Anba Dlo III Performance Schedule
Live Music Stage

7:00 Doors open
7:15 – 8:00 Coco Robichaux
 8:00 – 8:30 DJ Tom Harvey
8:30 – 9:00 Phillip Manuel and Felice Guimont Band
     9:00 – 9:30 DJ Tom Harvey
9:30 – 10:20 John Mooney
    10:20 – 11;00 DJ Tom Harvey
    11:00 – 11:10 Costume Contest (and Live Auction?)
11:10 – 12:00 101 Runners
    12:00 – 12:30 Fire Dancers, Drumming and Invocation by Moose, Unveiling of water sculpture by Jules and Josh
12:30 – 1:30 Cyril Neville and Tribe 13

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