WWOZ brings together our local, national and international supporters into a distinctive community that celebrates and strengthens the music, musicians, culture and culture bearers of New Orleans.
Here's a sampling of some of the June festivals in Louisiana.
Back to the Beach Festival
The Back to the Beach Festival is a popular one held from May 30 - June 1,
in Kenner, at the lake at the end of Williams Boulevard. Besides good local
music, there is also a car sho...
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Affordable, safe, healthy food. That's what the New Orleans Food Co-Op wants
to bring to the corner of St. Roch and St. Claude Avenues. And they want you
to help.
Music in this piece is by The Rebirth Brass Band and The Schatzy Band.
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It takes an army of volunteers, staff and experts to produce the WWOZ
broadcast, man the hospitality tent, produce Piano Night and create our live
internet coverage. There are many to thank and though we’ve done our best,
we’re sure we’ve missed some of the valuable contrib...
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With all the work and attention to the Jazz Fest, WWOZ’s big fundraiser,
Piano Night, sometimes fades away too quickly. We were at the House of Blues
for the whole evening last Monday, and we even got backstage to shoot some
video with some of the production team and the mu...
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For the last ten years, The New Orleans Musicians' Clinic has been providing
ongoing medical and mental health care to some of our city's greatest assets:
our musicians.
Features music by Jo Cool Davis, Astral Project, The Soul Rebels, Roselyn &
David, and The Rebirth Bra...
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New Orleans is known as one of the best cities in the world for its food.
People come from all over to eat at our restaurants and eateries.
If you are new to this area of the country and coming to your first Jazz
Fest, then you might run into some foods that you not only h...
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Most CD stores that you go to, if you even go to one, are places where you
buy music. Some have listening stations where you can listen before you buy.
But there are very few, if any, like the Louisiana Music Factory that put on
their own concert series and what they do dur...
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If you have been to Armstrong Park lately, you may have noticed the rusted arch that marks the main entrance to the park. Most days the gate below the arch is locked shut. But it wasn't always this way.
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Since 1985, Nan Parati has handmade every artist sign for Jazz Fest — not
to mention every craft sign and food price sign.
Meet the woman whose artwork you already know, and whose handwriting just may
make you feel like dancing.
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