Heads up about a really cool (and free) conference coming to town over the
weekend of April 19-21.
It's the EMP Pop Music Conference, and it brings together "academics,
critics, performers, and dedicated fans in a rare collective discussion"
about that thing we all love - m...
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Congratulations to all my friends at The French Quarter Fest on this special
30th anniversary celebration! This year the largest free music festival in
the South features 271 performers on 21 stages, as well as, par normal, the
world’s largest jazz brunch in Jackson Squa...
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New Orleans musicians and an auditorium full of appreciative fans of our
music created a second line for Roger Ebert, the film critic and long time
participant of the University of Colorado's Conference on World Affairs who
passed away six days ago. These photos were taken...
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A lot of people around the radio station tease me about being the foreign
language pronunciation patrol, which I don't mind, because learning foreign
languages has been among the best journeys of my life. Certainly I couldn't
do the shows I do without them. I recently com...
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Thank you to everyone who contibuted CDs
to this spring's drive for KLSP-91.7 FM!
Your outpouring of generosity is deeply appreciated!
We will be collecting albums again before the winter holiday season.
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The brilliant jazz pianist Mulgrew Miller will visit WWOZ this Thursday
(April 4th) just after 5:00 p.m. before heading over to Snug Harbor for his
special shows at 8 and 10.
On Wednesday, the night before, he will be playing with an ensemble of
University of New Orleans ...
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Everyone likes a goood second line we, well we have one Saturday March 30 at
8am and it will be in the rear of the classic.
Who wants to Second Line??
This is your chance to strut your stuff and show your support for WWOZ!
As most of you, a few weeks ago I would have never co...
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The Pedrito Martinez Group will be playing Friday, March 22, at Tipitinas.
Show starts at 9PM. The group will also be featured at the Congo Square World
Rhythm Festival Saturday, March 23rd.
Cuban percussionist and bandleader Pedrito Martinez is on tour to promote
his ne...
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When Robert Johnson recorded his song “Crossroad Blues”, he was not
singing about some nondescript intersection, he was singing about a very
specific place in the flat delta plain between the Yazoo and Mississippi
Rivers. A place known by all and visited by only a very few....
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Who wants to Second Line??
This is your chance to strut your stuff and show your support for WWOZ!
As most of you, a few weeks ago I would have never considered taking part in
the Crescent City Classic. Then I found out that WWOZ was raising funds for
its NEW TRANSMITTER thr...
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