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12 N.O. French Quarter Wanderings After The Saints Redskins Game We watch
the Saints games from a friendly, comfortable neighborhood bar known for its
drag shows - Starlight on the Park. In this bar the spectrum of gender
roulette players are of one identity - we are neig...
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Dear Listener,
Happy Holidays! Your support helped make lots of things possible for WWOZ
this year.
A brief and breathless review of the past year reveals that ‘OZ now
provides 54 other U.S. radio stations with a weekly program of live music
performances recorded locall...
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We meet up with Luther Kent, a singer whose musical path began at the age of
14, when he recorded under the pseudonym Duke Royal. Then we feature an
encore presentation of the 2009 Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival. On this
week's culinary crossroads, we check out a coup...
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Hey y'all!
Strawberry and his new band, Strawberry Presents, will be in with me during
the Blues Breakdown this Friday, Dec. 18 at 2:00 pm.
I hope you join us for some live local roots rock during the show.
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More James Booker to celebrate his birthday (he would have been 70 on
December 17th) in a rare Jazz Lunatique reappearance at midnight on
Wednesday. That is to say that you'll be able to hear 3 hours of Booker from
midnight to 3 AM tonight. We'll take you to Jazz City, he...
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On Monday, December 14, Papa Grows Funk played at the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans to open a series of WWOZ live broadcasts sponsored by the Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living. This series promotes healthy environments for musicians, service staff, and listeners by en...
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Tonight on the Kitchen Sink, it's the beginning of birthday month. Tonight
in the first hour we'll celebrate the birthdays of Art Neville aka Poppa Funk
and Henry Roland Byrd aka Professor Longhair. Then in the second hour,
nothing but the Piano Prince, the Bayou Maharaja...
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2009 was a great year for music releases, and our brilliant show hosts have made their picks for the top recordings of the year. See the latest additions to the list, purchase your favorites, and submit your own picks for the best releases of 2009!
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We preview upcoming shows and a New Year's Eve celebration at d.b.a., one of
the hottest music clubs on Frenchman Street in New Orleans. We also interview
d.b.a. co-owner Tom Thayer.
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