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Tune in next Thursday morning, July 1, @ 10:00a.m., when trombone player, Joe
Maize & a couple of the fellas from the To Be Continued Brass Band will join
me in the studio. We'll be talking about what's going on with the music on
the street, & of course, play some music.
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As you probably already know, June is National Accordion Awareness Month. So,
today's show will focus on the squeezebox, featuring everything from the
great Clifton Chenier to some music by the master of Honky Squonk, Schatzy.
Tune in from 11:30ish to 2pm for some Cajun, Zy...
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This Tuesday June 22, 2010 - 10:30 PM until 3 AM The Kitchen Sink and
Overnight will present the music of
SUN RA!
4.5 hours of the big bandleader/keyboardist/philospher/space jazz alien Sun
Ra and his assorted Omniverse Arkestras to celebrate the solstice.
We'll get out t...
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John Rankin shares the story of his first guitar and developing his
piano-like approach to the instrument. You can catch him most Tuesday nights
at the Columns Hotel on Saint Charles Avenue. For those wondering what to do
on Wednesday nights, Big Sam stops by to talk about...
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Tune in at 3 pm to hear Offbeat Magazine's Editor-in-chief Jan Ramsey explain
the latest development in the war between the NOPD and New Orleans' street
musicians.
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Dear Listener,
WWOZ’s Gulf Aid benefit concert for our devastated coastal community last
month sparked a cascade of similar local events, like Jonathan Ferrara
Gallery's Gulf Aid Art exhibition (June 17-19). You can also download “It
Ain’t My Fault” by the Gulf Aid AllSta...
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On today’s show, John Ellis & Double Wide provide some musical mischief,
recorded live at the Blue Nile on Frenchmen Street in New Orleans. Then, we
walk the culinary tightrope between hearty fried pork belly and a salad of
seasonal offerings, brought to you by John Harris ...
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Dafnis Prieto's Si o Si Quartet with Peter Apfelbaum were spectacular openers
on the last day of the 12th Annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Sunday June
13th. Prieto's tremendous change of pace, brilliant rhythms, tonal
perfection made you forget at times he is a drummer --...
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The poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca hit home once again after seeing Soledad
Barrio and Noche Flamenca at Le Petit Theatre. The guitars, the voices, the
poses, the pain, they were all there in front of me, beautifully alive in the
performance.
Please make time to check th...
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Forgive me, I'm a bit stuck on THE SPORT today. Yeah, that sport where the
audience share is measured in billions instead of millions. It's not just
the global quadrennial celebration, it's also that the US is playing England
today while Louisiana is playing an endless m...
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