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Mardi Gras World is an attraction and event venue in New Orleans located on the Mississippi river. The attraction business offers a look behind the scenes at how the floats are built for the Mardi Gras Parades. There are daily guided tours that take approximately one hour and give guests a lesson on the history of Mardi Gras and the current processes used to construct the floats and props used in todays Mardi Gras Parades. The event side of the business offers two world class venues to host large scale high end corporate parties, weddings, concerts and a broad range of other events. Our clients include Microsoft, Direct TV, the 2013 NFL Commissioners party, and media party. Mardi Gras World has the capacity to hold events with up to 11,000 attendees. It is the largest indoor and outdoor venue on the river in the New Orleans area.

Over the last 43 years, Carnaval Miami has made it possible for the members of the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana to accomplish service programs in the community. The organization started in 1975 by a small group of high school friends, to grow and become a major service non-profit organization. The network of over 160 members dedicates endless hours to improve the lives of underserved children. Thanks to the corporate support given to Carnaval Miami, the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana continues to give and provide, making Carnaval Miami far more than the hottest street party in the nation!

Steel Pulse was formed in 1975 in Birmingham, England, specifically the inner city area of Handsworth. The founding members were schoolmates David Hinds (the primary songwriter as well as the lead singer and guitarist), Basil Gabbidon (guitar), and Ronnie "Stepper" McQueen (bass). All of them came from working class West Indian immigrant families, and none had much musical experience. They took some time to improve their technical proficiency, often on Roots inspired material by the Wailers, Burning Spear and several other prominent Jamaican artists. McQueen suggested the group name, after a racehorse, and they soon fleshed out the lineup with drummer Steve "Grizzly" Nisbett, keyboardist/vocalist Selwyn "Bumbo" Brown, percussionist/vocalist Alphonso "Fonso" Martin, and vocalist Michael Riley. Steel Pulse initially had difficulty finding live gigs, as club owners were reluctant to give them a platform for their "subversive" Rastafarian politics. Luckily, the punk movement was opening up new avenues for music all over Britain, and also finding a spiritual kinship with protest reggae. Thus, the group wound up as an opening act for punk and new wave bands like the Clash, the Stranglers, Generation X, the Police, and XTC, and built a broad-based audience in the process. In keeping with the spirit of the times, Steel Pulse developed a theatrical stage show that leavened their social commentary with satirical humor; many of the members dressed in costumes that mocked traditional British archetypes (Riley was a vicar, McQueen a bowler-wearing aristocrat, Martin a coach footman, etc.). The band issued two singles -- "Kibudu, Mansetta and Abuku" and "Nyah Love" -- on small independent labels, when they then came to the attention of Island Records after opening for Burning Spear. Steel Pulse's first single for Island was the classic "Ku Klux Klan," which happened to lend itself well to the band's highly visual, costume-heavy concerts. It appeared on their 1978 debut album, Handsworth Revolution, which was soon hailed as ...