WWOZ was on hand to capture Spencer Bohren & the Whippersnappers live from
the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Center on March 9, 2019! Check out both sets
below.
Set One
Set Two
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Dr. John on the Fess Stage on May 4, 1986. Photo by Harold Baquet, courtesy
of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Archive.
In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary in 2019, we're featuring a Jazz Fest
photo of the day with our audience. Keep your eyes here, and at our Jazz
...
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The Dew Drop Social & Benevolent Hall in Mandeville launches their Spring
2019 concert season on Saturday, March 9! All concerts run 6:30-9p unless
otherwise noted. See the full schedule below:
Saturday, March 9: Steve Pistorius & The Southern Syncopators
Saturday, March 23...
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Vaucresson Sausage is the only original food vendor remaining at Jazz Fest.
The company's history with the festival goes even farther back than the first
festival in 1970-- in the 1960s, Newport Jazz Fest founder George Wein and
Pres Hall's Larry Borenstein and Allan Jaffe ...
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Keeping it real at Fais Do Do on April 29, 2018! Photo by Ryan
Hodgson-Rigsbee.
In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary in 2019, we're featuring a Jazz Fest
photo of the day with our audience. Keep your eyes here, and at our Jazz
Fest 50 page, all year long to see them...
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Rhiannon Giddens on the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage in 2016. Photo by
Leon Morris.
In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary in 2019, we're featuring a Jazz Fest
photo of the day with our audience. Keep your eyes here, and at our Jazz
Fest 50 page, all year long to...
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Gerald French is a jazz drummer, leader of the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, and
Mardi Gras Indian. In this WWOZ Jazz Fest Flashback, he talks about the long
history his family has at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, stemming
all the way back to the very first Fest in...
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