The Iguanas joined us in the studio Tuesday afternoon to show their support
for WWOZ during our fall membership drive! Check it out below, and support
our streams and broadcasts of New Orleans community radio to the universe all
day, every day by becoming a member.
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Dinosaurchestra joined us in the studio Tuesday morning to show their
support for WWOZ during our fall membership drive! Check it out below,
and support our streams and broadcasts of New Orleans community radio to the
universe all day, every day by becoming a member.
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Golden Star Hunters Black Indians of Mardi Gras on the Jazz & Heritage Stage
in 2011. Photo by Richie Drouant.
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 p...
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I had no idea that an accidental turn of the dial in the early 1990’s would
completely change my life! That serendipitous event turned me into an avid
listener of WWOZ, and then to an off-air volunteer, an on-air sub, then a
full-fledged show host and, finally, a full time ...
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1 People Get Ready Reuben Wilson / Bernard 'Pretty' Purdie /
Grant Green Jr. 06:13 The Godfathers Of Groove
2 God Bless The Child (Live) Esther Phillips 06:55
Home Is Where The Hatred Is: The Kudus Years 1971-1977
3 Nature Boy Ike Queb...
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WWOZ broadcast from the Fairgrounds in the mid-1990s. Pictured: Michael
Klein, David Freedman, Sharon McKenna. Jenna Phillips made the Professor
Longhair head. Photo by Ice Cube Slim, courtesy of the New Orleans Jazz &
Heritage Archive.
In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anni...
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Alexey Marti joined us in the studio Friday afternoon to show his support for
WWOZ during our fall membership drive! Check it out below, and support our
streams and broadcasts of New Orleans community radio to the universe all
day, every day by becoming a member.
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"Way before I ever became a show host or Music Director at WWOZ, I was a
listener. That magical feeling of getting introduced to music I had never
heard before was a huge piece of what attracted me to the station initially,
and I have always tried to keep that idea front an...
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"We wished on The Harvest Moon that somewhere in the theater of your mind you
will care about us as much as we truly care about you. I came to New Orleans
to learn and love and it turned out to be better than homemade ice cream on a
hot summer day...
"Forever and always gi...
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"I found WWOZ back in the late eighties, playing with a short wave radio I
kept in my room. I was first attracted to the sounds coming from stations
from around the world, and then realized that I could get the same feeling
from the music that played on this local station: ...
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