Big Chiefs of the Nation lead an Indian Red tribute to Bo Dollis
at Tipitina's on December 11, 2008.
That skipped beat New Orleans and the whole wild creation felt this morning was Wild Magnolias Council Chief and longtime Big Chief Theodore Emile "Bo" Dollis, Senior becoming an ancestor.
Among his many accomplishments and honors, he was selected by his fellow Chiefs as the 2004 Crystal Feather Honoree of the Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame.
His family asks for prayers at this time in lieu of phone calls and texts.
Information about funeral arrangements
(Updated Friday, January 30)
A parade for Wild Magnolias Council Chief and longtime Big Chief Bo Dollis, Senior presented by Big Chief Kevin Goodman and The Flaming Arrows will begin at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, January 30, at Kermit’s Treme Mother-in-law Lounge at 1500 North Claiborne Avenue and process to The Carver Theater.
On Friday, January 30, Visitation will take place between 4:00 and 7:00 pm at The Carver Theater at 2101 Orleans Avenue. The Friday visitation at The Carver is not a ticketed event, though tickets are required for the musical tribute that begins at The Carver at 8:00 pm.
On Saturday, January 31, a second Visitation will take place at 8:00 am in the Xavier University Convocation Center at 7900 Stroelitz Street, immediately followed by services at 10:00 am with Pastor Sherman Shelton of Firehouse Family Ministries officiating
A full funeral procession with a hundred suited Mardi Gras Indians will pay tribute to Big Chief Bo Dollis, Senior at the close of services. Leaving the Xavier Convocation Center, the procession up Washington Avenue will return the Big Chief to the corner of Second and Dryades Street where the Rebirth Brass Band will help play him home. Internment will take place at Providence Park Cemetery in Metairie.
Friends and family will gather for the repast at the NORD Lyons Center, 624 Louisiana Avenue at Tchoupitoulas St. from 1:00 – 4:00 pm on Saturday.
Sources: Wild Magnolias Big Chief Gerald “Bo, Junior” Dollis, WWOZ-FM website, Offbeat website, NOLAcom, The Carver Theater website, Marlena Asher, and Golden Comanches Big Chief Juan Pardo on Facebook.
Links to media coverage
"Bo Dollis, longtime Big Chief of the Wild Magnolias Mardi Gras Indians, has died"
and
"Bo Dollis and the Wild Magnolias' groundbreaking Mardi Gras Indian funk: listen,"
both by Alison Fensterstock for The New Orleans Times-Picayune and NOLA.com
"Big Chief Theodore ‘Bo’ Dollis dies at the age of 71"
by Geraldine Wykoff for The Louisiana Weekly
by Geraldine Wykoff for The Louisiana Weekly
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