
“You Feel Powerful”: Marching Through Carnival
High school bands practice for months before parading through the streets of New Orleans during Carnival.
High school bands practice for months before parading through the streets of New Orleans during Carnival.
Long before Michael Jackson, the Rolling Stones and Rihanna, there was Freddie Colston. Colston was just a 20-year-old student from tiny Fairbanks, La., when he traveled to Los Angeles in January 1967. He had grown up in a home without indoor plumbing, but now he was staying in lavish accommodations with about 180 other members…