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The 2018 Satchmo Summer Festival, New Orleans' annual tribute to Louis
Armstrong, happens the first weekend in August each year. Armstrong's
birthday was August 4. This year's festival is taking place at the New
Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint from August 3-5. Dail...
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Check out this beacon of positivity and devotion from Shamarr Allen & the
Underdawgs! Just released last week, the video includes Shamarr’s family
and friends and touches on the importance of expressing love to those who
mean most to you every day.
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A couple of changes in our programming schedule we'd like to share with
listeners:
Derrick Freeman, host of the Wednesday edition of the New Orleans Music
Show since 2016, is stepping down from his regular time slot but will still
be on WWOZ as a substitute show host. Best...
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Tune in Wednesday morning as host Breaux Bridges pays tribute to Lorraine
Gordon, owner/operator of the legendary NYC jazz club The Village Vanguard
from 6-9a on The Morning Set. Ms. Gordon died on Saturday, June 9, at age
95. He'll be playing tracks of some of the many re...
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Two more music legends have recently passed, and there will be tributes to
both on tonight's edition of The '50s R&B Show, 7-10p.
Dominic Joseph "D. J." Fontana, a native of Shreveport, La., was likely the
first drummer to join the staff of the Louisiana Hayride. There, he...
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A highlight from Zachary Richard's appearance at WWOZ on April 13, 2018. He
described this song as "a classic European ballad in which a young girl dies.
If you wanted to have a hit in the 1600s, you would have this young girl and
a solider who would go off into the war, co...
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Talking about Professor Longhair and the music he made, is almost like
talking about the creation of a small part of the universe. A man who
combined styles of music in such a way as to give musicians something to
think about as they have to now reinvent their style to ...
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