Traditional Mardi Gras Music Selection:
"The Second Line"

To "second line" is to march/dance in a certain fashion during a Mardi Gras parade,
or at a jazz funeral. If you're actually a part of the parade, you're the first line;
if you're just drunk and dancing behind it, you're in the second line. First line music is
somber; second line is raucous. Indeed, the march and this song are synonymous,
and go back decades.

The second line umbrella was born of a necessity to try to keep as cool as one could,
and stay out of the sun's heat and light. This use of the umbrella continues today
as it was more than a hundred years ago.