Get a Brass Pass for Jazz Fest

Be there for Jazz Fest 2025 and support WWOZ at the same time by getting a Brass Pass, your ticket to ALL eight days of the festival. The Brass Pass allows unlimited access to the WWOZ Hospitality Tent, a source of fresh fruit, iced coffee, seating, WiFi, and restrooms. And, WWOZ Brass Passes are fully transferable: a different person can use the pass each day! Your Brass Pass also allows same day re-entry for every day. A WWOZ Brass Pass comes with a full year’s membership to WWOZ. A portion of the proceeds goes directly to the station so we can continue to guard the groove and bring the sounds of New Orleans and Jazz Fest to the world!

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Have a Brass Pass Biz Party

Invite your special guests, VIP clients and trusted staff to experience Jazz Fest the best way possible, with entrance to Jazz Fest and to WWOZ's exclusive Hospitality Tent! Our new Brass Pass Biz Party packages include WWOZ On-Air underwriting spots and inclusion in the Drum Roll sponsor shout out during WWOZ Jazz Fest Live Broadcast. The Brass Pass Hospitality Tent is filled with abundant fresh fruit, cooling misters, iced coffee and cool water, plus private clean port-o-lets, only for Hospitality Tent visitors. Enjoy being "behind the scenes" of WWOZ’s live broadcast featuring WWOZ Show Hosts and musicians broadcasting from the tent.

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Join Us for Piano Night

WWOZ Piano Night is our flagship fundraiser and a festival season tradition among New Orleans music lovers! This year, 28 piano players (see the full lineup here) will perform at the House of Blues on Monday, April 28, carrying the flame of the New Orleans piano tradition and WWOZ. Piano Night has two simple goals: honor and celebrate New Orleans piano traditions and raise funds to benefit WWOZ. Patrons are invited to join us for more than five hours of piano in a range of styles from boogie-woogie to trad jazz, modern jazz to R&B, stride to gospel, and much more. Historically, WWOZ Piano Night sells out and we expect it will this year too, so get your tickets now!

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Listen Up! Jazz Fest Live Broadcast

Two years in a row our Jazz Fest live broadcast has won a Prestige Award from the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters for Best Live On-Site Remote Broadcast (see below!). You can hear us again this year from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, starting a week from Thursday (can't wait!) on April 24 and running through May 4. If you’re not able to make it this year, or if you can't be there every day, we'll be broadcasting live sets from the WWOZ Jazz Tent, the Blues Tent, Economy Hall, Jazz & Heritage Stage, and the Gospel Tent. Once the broadcast schedule is finalized, we'll post all the info on wwoz.org.

» Jazz Fest Live Broadcast

WWOZ Receives Four LAB Awards

We're excited to share with you that WWOZ received FOUR top honors at the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters Prestige Award Ceremony last month in Baton Rouge. They include: Best Live Onsite Remote for our broadcast from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival; Best Use of Digital Media for the Crescent City Blues & BBQ Fest 2024; Best Interview for "Amazing Grace: Aaron Neville" by our Music Director Murf Reeves; and Uniquely Louisiana for Takin' It To The Streets. Congratulations and thanks to our amazing staff, show hosts, board, volunteers, supporters and the incredible musicians of New Orleans and Louisiana.

» Best Interview for "Amazing Grace: Aaron Neville"

Your Support Means the World to Us

Big thank-yous to everyone who helped make last month's Spring Membership Drive a singular success. As always, the first thank-yous go to WWOZ members, both new and renewing. Shout outs to all of our listeners, who comprise the world's most excellent audience, and a standing ovation for our Membership team, who made it all happen. Cheers to all the guardians of the groove!

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French Quarter Fest Highlights

What an amazing French Quarter Fest! The weather was spectacular and the music and food even better. Check out all the photo highlights, courtesy of our talented volunteer photographers.

» FQF Photo Highlights

2025 Johnny Jackson, Jr. Gospel is Alive! Celebration

This year's Gospel is Alive! concert happens Monday, April 28 from 9:30-11:30am. The lineup includes Bishop Paul S. Morton and The Greater Sound Choir of Greater St. Stephen FGBC, Jessica Harvey & the Difference, and the Council of Aging Community Choir. Additionally, Craig Adams (who's on the bill for this year's WWOZ Piano Night) will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. Gospel is Alive! happens at the original Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in Gentilly. Admission is free and open to the public. All ages are welcome, and dancing and rejoicing are encouraged!

» Gospel is Alive! 2025

Show Host Profile: Jennifer Brady

For Jennifer Brady, host of Thursday night’s Kitchen Sink show (10pm-Midnight), it all starts with north Mississippi hill country blues. "I love that truly pure, unfiltered blues, free from polish.... I always want to make sure that there’s a good representation in my shows of the blues that I like." Jennifer began volunteering at WWOZ in 2012, at first contributing to social media and other efforts, before being training as a substitute host and then moving up to her own show. This year will be Jennifer's third directing segments of WWOZ’s award-winning Jazz Fest live broadcast. "As a 'young' DJ compared to those who've been with 'OZ for multiple decades, I'm deeply grateful for the music knowledge shared with me by Alski, Black Mold, Andrew Grafe, Gentilly Jr., Cousin Dimitri and others. We're very close knit, in the background. You get to know the people who are on before and after you. It's a kinship of DJs, that’s what the radio station is, really - a family." Thanks, Jennifer, we're glad you're part of our family!

» Read the full Jennifer Brady profile by Melissa Milton

Classic Jazz Fest Recipes

If you can't be at Jazz Fest this year, we'll miss you! Here are some back-in-the-day recipes to cook up while you're listening to our broadcast. They're from the first (1984) edition of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Cookbook by Lorraine Landry and Lee Barnes. Courtesy NOJ&HF Archive.

» Classic Jazz Fest Recipes