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.
At 'OZ, we're excited about our new partnership with WWL-TV, in which we recognize the work of the city's "Guardians of the Groove" with a monthly television series of profiles and interviews. See the second segment, featuring Donald Harrison interviewed by show host T.R. John...
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Pianist Jorge Luis Pacheco, part of the next generation of contemporary Cuban
jazz musicians coming out of Havana, will be in New Orleans on Friday.
“Pachequito” and his trio make their formal New Orleans debut during this
visit, but he’s been a friend of the station for a w...
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Cuban jazz pianist (and international rising star) Roberto Fonseca comes to the House of Blues on October 1 for a free Jazz Journey concert presented by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival & Foundation. Los Po-Boy-Citos open the show. Seating is general admission, and no ...
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This week we bring you Alvin ‘Youngblood’ Hart’s Muscle Theory, recorded live at French Quarter Fest 2013. We sit down with Alvin to talk about his upbringing, songwriting, and one of his greatest mentors, Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown. We also meet up with Tim Sweetwood of the...
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WWOZ's show hosts score a lot of great interviews with musicians and other people of note, in which they discuss not only music, but their careers and lives. Now the best of these conversations are available on demand and as podcasts in a new feature: The WWOZ Interview. So fa...
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Last Wednesday night, New Orleans music took over the world of late-night TV
talk shows. Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue appeared on The Tonight Show
with Jay Leno (no online video yet, but we're hoping!), and the Preservation
Hall Jazz Band did "That's It!", the title t...
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During the late 1990s, writes Keith Spera of the Times-Picayune, "Frenchmen
Street was still considered an exotic destination, even as it yielded a
plethora of ambitious, genre-bending bands. Among the most incendiary was
Iris May Tango", a group that "hit with a full-body ...
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August 29 2013 -- 23:36
Harry Shearer and Judith Owens talk with WWOZ's David Torkanowsky on August
29, 2013, the eighth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent
Federal Flood.
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