New Orleans brass band-meets-Mardi Gras Indian outfit Cha Wa radiates the energy of the city’s street culture. “My People,” the band’s follow up to their Grammy-nominated album “Spyboy,” feels like pure joy, a distillation of generations of New Orleans expression. But it also never fails to remind us how hard-won that joy was and still is: not least in the tense, funky and explosive title track, with its declaration “My people, we’re still here.”

Tom sits down with lead singers, J’Wan Bodreaux and Honey Banister to find out who is behind the funk and feathers in the high-energy riff-session discussing the history of their music and their dynamic "grand gumbo of singing, intoxicating rhythms, and deep funk grooves that are impossible to resist.”