Join us this Saturday midnight to 3am Sunday morning for "music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of..."   Music from golden age of Americana, the 1950s to 1970s, when race and popular records broke though the separation barriers.  Inspired us.  Made us bet... Read more

WWOZ is 33 years old--and yet we feel so young! Help us celebrate by joining us on Saturday, December 7 for a "Block Party" indoors from 12 noon to 4 pm, at Kermit's Speakeasy. Kermit will be BBQing, and we'll have live music by the Baby Boyz Brass Band and Guitar Slim Jr! Read more

In honor of Hanukkah season, which began last night, here's the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra with a short (5 min, 17 sec) collection of Hanukkah melodies, put together by their lead trombonist and artistic director, Paul Ferguson.     Read more

This video comes from Chicago's Alligator Records, whose roster includes a number of Louisiana artists. Here, two of them (Marcia Ball and CJ Chenier) join Lil Ed & The Blues Imperials, Corey Harris, and Polish bluesman Irek Dudek for a rousing version of the jump blues cla... Read more

Lower 9th Ward String Orchestra at WWOZ Read more

In what may be the final weeks of the citizens of New Orleans’ chance to offer input into the upcoming revision of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance--which governs zoning throughout metro New Orleans--issues of when, where and who can offer live music continue to stir cont... Read more

Props to our public radio siblings at Fordham Univesity's WFUV for these three songs by Lousisana bluesman Sonny Landreth ("Wonderide", "Forgotten Story", and "Cherry Ball Blues"), recorded August 2, 2012 in WFUV's Studio A in New York. "Wonderide":   "Forgotten Story":  ... Read more

On this week’s program, we celebrate the holidays with some of the musical families of New Orleans, featuring sets by Ellis and Jason Marsalis, Steve and Sasha Masakowski, Aaron and Ivan Neville, and the late Walter Payton and his son, Nicholas Payton. Heritage runs deep and a... Read more

Here's 16 minutes of Youssou N'Dour, the great Senegalese singer, songwriter and precussionist (not to mention his country's current Minister of Tourism & Culture and "perhaps the most famous singer alive" in Senegal and much of Africa) preforming at the Africa Festival in ... Read more