On Mardi Gras Day

Written by Dr. Michael White
Published by MGW Jazz Publishing (ASCAP) and Pattie Rae Music (ASCAP)

ON MARDI GRAS DAY is based on lively brass band music and activities during a typical carnival. The words recall a day filled with parades, beads, doubloons, red beans and rice, and seeing the Mardi Gras Indians and the Zulu parade “until there’s no more sun on Mardi Gras Day.”