The Blues Foundation today announced the nominees for the 2010 Blues Music
Awards
NOMINEES by Award:
Acoustic Album
David Maxwell & Louisiana Red You Got to Move
Maria Muldaur & her Garden of Joy Good Time Music for Hard Times
Saffire-the Uppity Blues Women Havin' The Last ...
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2009 CDs by New Orleans artists will be the focus of the next two Tuesday New
Orleans Music Shows. Here's my listing of the top 11 CDS.
My top 11 CDs by 2009 New Orleans artists listed alphabetically
Notes:
Top airplay was Tom McDermott's followed closely by Luther Kent's and...
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Story and photographs by Sharon Armstrong.
There is a theory that I have heard that says that women dress not for men,
but for other women. If that is true, then the burlesque girls of Fleur de
Tease certainly proved that they can definitely undress for other women as
well...
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Story by Sharon Armstrong. Photographs courtesy of Legacy.
The Christmas season in New Orleans might be full of holy nights, but they
will be far from silent if Irish music group Legacy has anything to do with
it.
At a time when New Orleanians are starting to think about ...
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It’s with a heavy heart that WWOZ announces the passing of one of the cornerstones of our volunteer army, Mike Casey. He was 71. Our love and support go out to Mike’s family, which includes his nephew, ‘OZ show host Andrew Grafe. Show host Jamie Dell’Apa has written a beautifu...
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Post Thanksgiving DietThe diet and exercise video you need from the Firesign
Theatre: An audio version of this type of non-sense happens
every Saturday midnight to Sunday 3am.Jamie
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If you are a regular listener to my "Sittin' At The Crossroad" show then you
most certainly know Big Daddy O' (Owen Tufts). Recent O' was hit hard with
blood clots in his lungs. He had clot in all five lobes. He spent the better
part of a week in Loly Kemp Hospital (Charity...
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It's time for my at least 25th annual Food Show. So on Tuesday the 24th, all
of the songs will be about food or have a type of food in the title. It's my
way of ringing in the holiday season so don't tune in hungry.
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Story by Sharon Armstrong.
The thing about Jimmy Crowley --consummate storyteller, songwriter, song
collector, musician, and ethnographer -- is that you never quite know what
you will get.
Crowley has been at the center of the Irish folk music scene since the
seventies, w...
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Tonight 11/17/09 on the Kitchen Sink, after some preview music for Stanton
Moore's James Black gig at Chickie Wah Wah and Loyola, Neko Case, and Dan
Auerbach/Justin Townes Earle, we'll put on a bale of jazz from 1959, possibly
the greatest year of recorded music ever. Dig ...
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