Always for Pleasure

This film is an intensive insider’s look at Mardi Gras and the myriad of musical traditions in this annual celebration in New Orleans. It provides an interesting background to black America’s honouring of the native peoples in the southern States. Dressing in elaborate Indian costumes they make specifically for the Mardi Gras, black Americans tell of the time when native communities gave them refuge from the slavery of the southern States. A film rich in its investigation of Southern music as a cultural expression of a people’s struggles.