Each year at the summer soltice, the Make Music New York Festival happens, with some 1300 performances over all five boroughs. This year for one of those performances, NPR Music commissioned a new piece by Sunny Jain of Red Baraat called "100+ BPM". Then they invited any mu... Read more

Storyville Records recently posted video of a 1985 performance of "Drop the Bomb" by the great New Orleans blues guitarist Snooks Eaglin (1936-2009). The song would later appear on his 1987 album Baby, You Can Get Your Gun, the first of his string of recordings for Black To... Read more

WWOZ's Jennifer Brady reports: Six hours north of New Orleans is a small town, population 84, called Waterford, MS.  Friday June 27th – Saturday June 28th at the crossroad of Highway 7 and Highway 310 was the 9th Annual North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic. Hill Country Bl... Read more

I'll be in subbing for the Traditional Jazz show tomorrow, Thursday, July 10, 2014 from 9-11am. Joining me will be John Joyce, bassist for New Orleans favorites The Smoking Time Jazz Club. John is one of the most knowledgeable and committed jazz musicians I've had the ple... Read more

New York's The Young Presidents (Mitch Kaneff and Jake Hertzog) joined up with New Orleans icon Ivan Neville to shoot this "exuberant, fun video" of their original rock tune "Time" at various locations around town, including WWOZ. This is new stuff, just published on June 2... Read more

Calas are a kind of creole rice fritter (or, according to an old French recipe, beignets de riz) typically containing cooked rice, yeast, sugar, eggs, and flour; the savory version here, courtesy of Louisiana Cookin' magazine, omits the sugar, adds crabmeat, and leavens with b... Read more

For your weekend viewing pleasure, here's a hot-off-the-presses, live-in-the studio performance by Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns at KEXP in Seattle, recorded on May 29 and published yesterday. It's about 26 minutes long, and includes four songs: "Catch 'em Young", ... Read more

Welcome to the first episode of WWOZ's new nationally syndicated program, NEW ORLEANS CALLING! We have lots in store for you in the weeks and months ahead! We start off this week by checking out the New Orleans piano tradition. Read more

Prince, who's headlining the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans this weekend, possesses many musical gifts, perhaps none greater than as a rock-star-style guitarist. Rolling Stone rated him 33rd of the 100 greatest ever while citing the performance in the video below as ... Read more