Gilbert participates in Mardi Gras music tour

2016 Feb 11

Katharine Gilbert of Rose Hill participated in Cornell College's Pandemonium steel drum band, Calypso Singers, and Calypso horns tour to New Orleans during Mardi Gras. The 30-student contingent played their way down St. Charles Avenue in a float during four parades seen by more than a million people.

The Mardi Gras tour is possible because of Cornell's One Course At A Time curriculum. The tour takes place during Block Break between Blocks 5 and 6 of Cornell's eight-block year.

Pandemonium, the Calypso Singers, and the Calypso horns are directed by professors of music Martin Hearne and Lisa Hearne. Pandemonium is the only steel drum band appearing at Mardi Gras, Martin Hearne said, and one of the very few groups from outside the Gulf South.