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.
This special edition of New Orleans All the Way Live features spooky tunes
from around the Crescent City. We also a visit with a local Vodou priestess,
and we check out a haunted hotel that serves a delicious Bloody Mary.
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Eric Overmyer, Executive Producer of the HBO series "Treme," will stop by WWOZ's studio on Tuesday, Oct. 26, at 8:30 a.m. during Morning Set with Mark LaMaire to talk about the release of the "Treme" Season 1 soundtrack, as well as downloadable videos and the show. Tune in!
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Morphine lives on in The Members of Morphine, with Jeremy Lyons AKA The Ever
Expanding Elastic Wasteband. They played live today on the Blues Breakdown,
community radio style, raw and minimal.
See them tonight, here in New Orleans, at D.B.A. on Frenchman Street. The
band fe...
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On May 5, 1885 a group of civic-minded African American residents of the
village of Mandeville, led by the late Olivia Eunio, created the Dew Drop
Social and Benevolent Association.
A decade later the organization laid a cornerstone and in 1895 constructed a
small wooden b...
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Dear Listener,
Congratulations to all of our listeners who helped us slam it out of the park
during the 2010 Fall Membership drive. While our local support continues to
grow, the headline this year is the steady growth in our out-of-town
membership—currently north of 48% ...
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The Original Prince of Wales social and pleasure club held their 82nd annual
second line this past Sunday, October 10th, starting and ending at the Rock
Bottom lounge on Tchoupitoulas.
Lead by club leader Joe Stern a.k.a "White Boy Joe", The Prince of Wales
is one of t...
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On Wednesday, October 20, "Mr. Personality" Lloyd Price will visit Billy Delle at WWOZ at around 7 p.m. Price is a legendary New Orleans-based R&B singer whose hit "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" brought him national fame in 1952.
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On today’s show we preview the 12th annual Voodoo Experience, taking place
on October 29-31, 2010, in City Park behind the New Orleans Museum of Art. We
also highlight some performances from previous years at Voodoo Experience,
including Ivan Neville, Troy "Trombone Shorty"...
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