February 7, 2014: The village of Versailles in New Orleans East rings in the lunar Vietnamese New Year with a spectacular three-day festival featuring dragon dances, Vietnamese cuisine, customary games, folk music and dance. Check out these scenes from Friday's opening cere... Read more

Here in New Orleans we know how to incorporate food into just about anything and Mardi Gras is surely no exception. Dressed up in green, yellow, and purple, King Cakes not only are a tasty tradition, they symbolize the history of Mardi Gras, the Twelfth Night celebrations, and... Read more

"I want it, I want it! I need it, I need it!" Here's WWOZ Cookbook contributor Roy "Chubby" Carrier of Church Point in Acadia Parish, with "Zydeco Junkie", the title song from his 2010 Grammy-winning album.     Carrier is a third generation of zydeco artist. He learned acco... Read more

On February 4, 2014, the VH1 cable network aired the television premiere of Nelson George's Finding the Funk documentary, which has been making the film fest circuit since its 2013 release. The televised version of the film, edited down to 62 minutes from the longer directo... Read more

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The Wynton Marsalis Septet delivers a 16-minute set of Thelonious Monk songs, "Bright Mississippi" and "For Brake's Sake" among them, recorded live at the Theater aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht (Holland) on November 4, 1994. The (incredible, amazing) lineup: Wytnon Marsalis ... Read more

Today begins the first of several reports by Maryse Dejean and Don Paul from their visit to the 2014 Port-au-Prince International Jazz Festival, January 18 to January 25. Coming soon: the guitarist and composer Lionel Louéké', born in Benin, west Africa, and recent collabor... Read more

Exactly four weeks from Fat Tuesday, it's time to get serious about Mardi Gras. Thus the Dixie Cups and their 1965 rendition of "Iko Iko", a bubble gum take on a Carnival classic first recorded in 1954 as "Jock-a-Mo" by James "Sugar Boy" Crawford. A family act from the Call... Read more

This week’s program is a mixture of love songs and sweets, as we prepare for Valentine’s Day.  Throughout the hour, we’ll spend our time enjoying cool desserts with a little cake on the side.  Music of the hour includes songs by Irma Thomas, Walter ‘Wolfman’ Washington, the... Read more

Jamaica's Andrew Chin, better known as Brushy One String, was a crowd pleaser at last year's Jazz Fest, playing an acoustic guitar with a single string (see the photo above). Brushy's act is an object lesson in doing more with less. He makes engaging music by combining his ... Read more