We're excited to share with you that WWOZ has received FOUR top honors at the
Louisiana Association of Broadcasters Prestige Award Ceremony today in Baton
Rouge!
Best Use of Digital Media: Crescent City Blues & BBQ Fest 2024
Best Interview: "Amazing Grace: Aaron Neville"...
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Scenes from Uptown Super Sunday on March 16, 2025! The Mardi Gras Indians
were out on the streets to show their amazing art, accompanied by Baby Dolls,
second line dancers, and brass bands. This annual event is centered around
A.L. Davis Park at the corner of Washington Ave...
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When you ask someone when festival season officially kicks off you get all
types of answers but for me it's always with my March pilgrimage to the
Spirit of Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak Florida for the Suwannee Spring
Reunion this year March 20-23. The Spirit of Suwannee...
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WWOZ was on hand for the Illuminated Rhythms Masquerade Ball at the Music Box
Village on February 25! Check out the video below.
The sparkling performance featured special projections and lighting by Monica
Rose Kelly & Her Light Bearers, and music from The March Fourth Ban...
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This is Courir des Les Malfecteurs in Church Point, Louisiana on Saturday,
February 15, 2025! Les Malfecteurs is an organization committed to the
preservation and advancement of the Cajun culture. The traditional
courir—the French word for run—is led by the capitaine follow...
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We are pleased to share that WWOZ's A Closer Walk: Interactive New Orleans
Music History Map has received the prestigious Best in Digital Humanities
Award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities!
Awarded biannually in odd-numbered years, the Best in Digital Humaniti...
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WWOZ was there for the Indian practice on February 9, 2025 as numerous tribes
prepared for Mardi Gras 2025! This practice was held at Little People's Place
in Treme, led by Jeremy Stevenson, Second Chief of the Monogram Hunters with
Big Queen Kalindah Laveaux and her drumme...
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YLC's free Wednesday at the Square concert series returns this spring! YLC
Wednesday at the Square is a free concert series in the heart of New Orleans
Central Business District. Proceeds from food and beverage sales benefit the
Young Leadership Council’s community projects...
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--Written by Melissa Milton
When you tune in to Wednesday's version of Jazz from Jax Brewery on WWOZ, the
impeccably curated playlist of classic modern jazz that you'll hear, and the
resonant voice behind it, belong to Dr. Al Colón.
"I call it classic modern jazz by des...
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