NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hip-hop singer Big Freedia (FREE’-duh) and an entourage of booty-shaking “bounce” dancers are using a Mardi Gras float for a stage when the Buku music festival returns to New Orleans this weekend.

The two-day Buku Music + Art Project, a hip-hop and electronic dance music festival launched last year, is back and bigger, with about two dozen more acts and four stages instead of two.

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