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Time to turn on the stove, slow cook that roux and heat up the house. This is an easy, hearty recipe featuring chicken and andouille sausage, with the holy trifecta and a roux. It's easy to make, you probably already have all the ingredients on hand, and you can whip this up t...
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On this week’s show, we enjoy the music of sisters Leah and Chloe from the
band Rising Appalachia. We also check out an encore presentation of Ensemble
Fatien, a New Orleans/West African musical hybrid. Along the way, we stop at
a local art market before enjoying some food ...
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Today's show features Saxophonist, Flautist, and Clarinetist Rex Gregory, a
jazz musician whose philosophical ideas influence his compositions as much as
his teachers and collaborators do. This show was recorded at a New Orleans
night club called the Blue Nile. In this reco...
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Listen here all you denizens of the delta, the Western Sahara powerhouse
Tinariwen will take to the stage this Monday, November the 7th at House of
Blues. Hailed as one of the most prominent contemporary acts today,
Tinariwen truly exemplifies the blues through their songs...
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The Audubon Zoo is hosting it’s annual Swamp Fest, Nov. 5-6, bringing a
some great South Louisiana music to the stages. Satuday, Nathan and the
Zydeco Cha-Chas are in the Performance Pavillion and the Lafouche Cajun Band
from Lockport will be in the Swamp Exhibit. Sunday Di...
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On this week’s program we feature Susan Cowsill, a songwriter whose musical
career started as a child with her family’s band, "The Cowsills." She
continues to perform in New Orleans and today we listen to a performance
recorded at New Orleans’s French Quarter Festival. We a...
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It's time to take the skeletons out of the closet, and put them in the yard!
We might decorate ourselves and join in the ghost parade. We may take a peek
into the mouth of horror, a dark cave of unknown things.
What lurks in the dark? What will we find when we stand at death...
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The 6' to 9' Social Aid and Pleasure Club's 7th annual Halloween parade
rolled Saturday evening from the 6th to the 9th ward, passing out candy,
homemade toys and sheer holiday fun to neighborhood chidren en route. This
year's theme was: "The End of Times Marches On,". The ...
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On this week’s show, we feature the music of Kermit Ruffins, Glen David
Andrews and the Soul Rebels. We also meet up with Chef John Besh to talk
about his new book, My Family Table. Later on in the program, Mark Romig, CEO
of the New Orleans Tourism and Marketing Corporatio...
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We all love New Orleans. Through the best of times and the worst of times,
we dedicate ourselves by truly LIVING for the city like no other community in
the nation does. That’s why when I learned about NOAAHH, New Orleans
Artists Against Hunger and Homelessness, (pronounce...
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