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.
Join us this week as we get ready New Orleans' own Crescent City Blues and
BBQ Festival. We meet up with Jonny Ray and Michelle for a movie tour of the
city and visit a local cooking school for three outstanding courses with
award-winning chef Frank Brightsen.
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Getting hounded by the same 10 tunes everywhere you go this holiday season?
Tune in this Monday at 7pm and let Gentilly Jr. cure your holiday blues with
some...holiday blues. Not to mention bluegrass. Plus all genres in between -
maybe even some holiday hot rod. "I can jus...
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In This Issue
Holiday Happenings
End of Year Giving
2012 Jazz Fest Line-up Announced
Volunteer Holiday Party Highlights
'OZ's 31st Birthday Bash & Second Line Highlights
RIP Coco Robicheaux
January Volunteer of the Month:...
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Tune in to WWOZ FM in New Orleans this Friday morning, December 16th from 6
to 9 a.m. Louisiana time for my holiday modern jazz show! Amidst a handful
of standard Christmas songs done in a creative, non-standard and very
enjoyable way – will be songs of Peace on earth and ...
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Most people who know of Gina Forsyth think about her playing fiddle behind some of the great Cajun and Zydeco musicians of south Louisiana. She has recorded with Bruce Daigrepont, Amanda Shaw, Nonc Allie Young and Mamou, so the expectations around her current CD would probably...
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Sometime in the mid-to-late 1960s, there was one flamenco club in New Orleans, that the now-defunct New Orleans State-Item regarded as, “no better entertainment in New Orleans,” Chateau Flamenco. Located on Chartres Street, according to clippings, the venue featured three perf...
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This week’s program features an hour of Flamenco with music and interviews.
During the show, Teresa Romero Torkanowsky, who opened a Flamenco club in
the French Quarter in the 1960s, visits us. To satisfy our appetite, we stop
by Rio Mar restaurant for a sampling of cevich...
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Hi, right on friends and soulful people.
Over the years, updating my playlists here has not been one of my strong
suits , though it is my main goal to inform all listeners about the music I'm
playing so that you can enjoy it for yourself again and again. Thanks to
the new ...
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Like New Orleans; Seattle and Portland are geographically isolated port
cities that have always created their own unique sound. Unlike New Orleans,
the primarily caucasian populations of Seattle to Portland, often tuned their
ears to the largest closest city (Los Angeles) ...
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Jimbo Mathus is saddled up and ready to ride into town. He is heading toward
the Quarters and the Blues Breakdown Show, with your hostess "The Problem
Child".
Jimbo Mathus was born and raised in Mississippi and learned the music as it
was passed down through the generations...
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