I had the pleasure to check in four very lovely young ladies from Sweden last night and they are here in New Orleans for Mardi Gras as their 30 member drum band (or as they call it, a percussion orchestra) is going to be marching in at least one parade during this coming week. I didn't get any details so you'll just have to look for the 30 drummer band that has lots of soul and rhythm, at least according to some of their videos on their YouTube channel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Kiriaka
Here is their website, which of course, is in Swedish but I have the Google Translate link below the original link, if your Swedish isn't very good... like mine isn't.
http://kiriaka.se/
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fkiriaka.se%2F
And the English version of "About KIRIAKA"...
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://kiriaka.se/node/8&usg=ALkJrhjL0jndAsI_4IW51aqYdUcsMdzK9g
KIRIAKA... WELCOME TO NEW ORLEANS, MARDI GRAS AND ST. VINCENT'S GUESTHOUSE!!!
Lenny Vasbinder
