The Big Easy

2pm – 3pm: Joli Blon Cajun Band
Joli Blon, who take their name from a much-loved Cajun waltz, are an all-women’s Cajun band who play traditional dance music from the swamps of Louisiana. Their stomping two-steps, mournful waltzes, Cajun French songs and three-part harmonies – with a bit of Blues in the mix – are popular with party people and roots music lovers.

3pm – 4pm: DJ Lil’ Koko
DJ Lil’ Koko spins rare New Orleans 1950s R&B, swampy brass, funk, jazz, gut-bucket blues and Cajun punk oddities with a few detours into the Bayous of Louisiana. She tours the world spinning vinyl live, hosted a weekly New Orleans Jazz FM show, and as a broadcaster and music journalist she brings the rich musical history and culture of New Orleans to the masses.

4pm – 5pm: The Brass Funkeys
The Brass Funkeys are a trailblazer in the new generation of UK Brass Bands. Formed in 2011, this nine-piece collective has a unique sound forged from their strong personalities and eclectic individual tastes, whilst still paying homage to their New Orleans Brass Band roots. The Brass Funkeys have honed their skills over 10 years playing the club and festival circuits in the UK and Europe, always exploring new musical directions while refining their exciting, eclectic and energetic live show, bursting at the seams with ideas and infectious energy.

5pm – 6pm: DJ Lil’ Koko
DJ Lil’ Koko returns for a second set.

6pm – 7pm: Kinetika Bloco
Kinetika Bloco is a youth music charity with an exuberant mix of young brass and woodwind players, drummers, steel pan and dancers all in costume creating a ‘unique new British Carnival sound with a decidedly London edge’ (BBC Radio 2). They draw their influences from the Caribbean, Brazil, Africa and New Orleans, and have played with Ezra Collective, at the Notting Hill Carnival and have performed their own second-line in New Orleans, Louisiana.