In April and May, millions of people worldwide “Fested in Place” with WWOZ. Back by popular demand, we will present a new 7-day virtual festival featuring classic live sets from New Orleans music legends past and present.
Pull out your festival shirts, hats, flags, chairs and get ready to celebrate the best of New Orleans music from your backyard, your front porch or your air-conditioned living room-- anywhere in the world.
10 am
Irma Thomas Tribute to Mahalia Jackson - recorded by Munk Music at Jazz Fest 2009
Tab Benoit - recorded by WWOZ at Super Bowl Boulevard 2013
12 noon
New Orleans Nightingales - recorded by WWOZ at Bayou Boogaloo 2013
Louis Armstrong/Sidney Bechet - recorded at Municipal Auditorium 1945
12:40 pm
Toots & Maytals - recorded by WWOZ at Voodoo 2007
Doreen Ketchens - recorded by WWOZ at Basin St Station 2015
Beau Jocque - recorded by WWOZ at Jazz Fest 1993
2:00 pm
The Radiators - courtesy of the band, recorded at Jazz Fest 1984
3:00 pm
SECOND LINE: Men & Lady Buckjumpers/Rebirth Brass Band
Johnny Adams - recorded by WWOZ at Jazz Fest 1995
4:00 pm
Germaine Bazzle and Betty Shirley - recorded by WWPZ at Jazz Journey concert, Dillard University's Lawless Memorial Chapel, 2012
Evan Christopher & David Torkanowsky - recorded at WWOZ studios, 2018 & 2020
5:00 pm
Eddie Bo - recorded by WWOZ at Jazz Fest 1994
SPECIAL ENCORE of James Booker (from the Thorny Penfield Collection, Hogan Jazz Archive of Tulane University Special Collections, Tipitina's, 1978)
6:00 pm
The Neville Brothers - recorded by Munk Music at Jazz Fest 2012
