Dance for a Chicken: The Cajun Mardi Gras
folkstreamer — June 19, 2007 — Cajun filmmaker Pat Mire gives us an inside look at the colorful, rural Cajun Mardi Gras. Every year before Lent begins, processions of masked and costumed revelers, often on horseback, go from house to house gathering ingredients for communal gumbos in communities across rural southwest Louisiana. The often-unruly participants in this ancient tradition play as beggars, fools, and thieves as they raid farmsteads and perform in exchange for charity or, in other words, "dance for a chicken." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-38ZBOkTW8&feature=related
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