It is the Wednesday before Mardi Gras Day, and spirits and persons from the subdudes' past mingle freely with those of the present and future on and around the Tipitina's stage.

The room itself figures prominently in the subdudes story. It was a happy accident on this stage seven years ago by which bassist Johnny Ray Allen, percussionist Steve Amedee, keyboardist/ accordionist John Magnie and guitarist and vocalist Tommy Malone stumbled upon the configuration and style that would be their ...