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In the third WWOZ video profile of New Orleans buskers, we get to know Doreen Ketchens. "Queen Clarinet" has traveled the world playing music, but you can usually catch her act Th-Sunday outside Rouses on Royal Street.
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In the fifth WWOZ video profile of New Orleans buskers, we head over to Royal Street and get to know banjo player and song writer Washboard Lissa.
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In the fourth WWOZ video profile of New Orleans buskers, we head over to Royal Street and get to know banjo player and song writer Kia Cavallaro.
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In this second WWOZ video profile of New Orleans buskers, we meet Brian Belknap, a self-taught musician who left a troubled home at an early age, thumbed cross country, making what he could playing on the streets. Currently, he plays throughout San Francisco and seasonally on...
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If old or obscure recordings are your thing, I've got a treat for you. The
University of California at Santa Barbara partnered with the Institute of
Museum and Library Services to digitize over 10,000 cylinder recordings from
1890-1928. The recordings are available to the p...
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Last Saturday night, WWOZ's new video team produced its first live stream. We streamed two sets from the Bogalusa Blues & Heritage Festival: Big George Brock and the Ruthie Foster Band. If you missed it, no worries: you can see them both here.
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Aaron Neville and folk-blues-country vocalist Maria Muldaur perform "Amazing
Grace" at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, on November 26, 1989. Muldaur's
career began as part of the American folk music revival and the Greenwich
Village scene of the early 1960s. Her subsequent...
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For your weekend viewing pleasure, here's Elvis Costello accompanied by Allen
Toussaint, the Crescent City Horns (including Big Sam Williams) and the
Imposters, live from the Montreal Jazz Festival on July 3, 2006. This video
is 56 minutes long, selected from a 3 hour show-...
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