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Here are a few "Jazz Fest Food" recipes in case you're interested in cooking
at home while Jazz Festing in Place.
First, here are 6 classic Jazz Fest recipes from the first (1984) edition of
the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Cookbook by Lorraine Landry and Lee
Barne...
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Playlist: Soul Power with the Soul Sister
Saturday, April 10, 2021
8:00-10:00pm CDT
"Bold Soul Sister" - Ike and Tina Turner, 1970
"I Gotcha Now" - Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers, 1979
"Street Babies" (12" mix) - Platypus, 1979
"Keep on Movin' and Groovin'" - Atlantis, 1982...
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1 01. Utopia (Instrumental) Fully Fullwood 03:53 For All Time
2 Touch the Hem of His Garment Merry Clayton 03:17 Beautiful Scars
3 Living in the Last Days Elizabeth King 03:09 Living in the Last Days
4 Share Your Love With Me Johnny Adams 03:37 Introduction To Johnny Adams
5 O...
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This week on Takin' It To The Streets, Sportage trombonist Ersel "Garfield"
Bogan talks to Action Jackson about how he got his brass band start in high
school, why he created Brass Fest, how the Save Our Brass Culture Foundation
works to help musicians, and more. Hear it al...
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Ultra rare Louis Armstrong! This performance of 'Beautiful Dreamer' on
the Ed Sullivan Show had all but disappeared from 1957 until 2015 when the
Louis Armstrong House's Ricky Riccardi surprised jazz historian Dan
Morgenstern with just the audio at Satchmo Summer Fest. Yest...
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In 2017, the Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame collaborated with WWOZ to record
an oral history with "Miss Teen" (Augustine Germaine Lewis), who was Spy
Girl with the Cheyenne Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans in the 1940s and
1950s. Miss Teen passed in March 2021. Here are so...
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Tune in to WWOZ this Saturday as we pay tribute to French Quarter Festival
presented by Chevron on the festival's traditional spring weekend! From
12-4pm CT, we'll be sharing highlights from the festival's past with sets
from John Mooney, Tin Men, Betty Shirley, Tuba Skinny...
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Playlist: Soul Power with the Soul Sister
Saturday, April 3, 2021
8:00-10:00pm CDT
"Bold Soul Sister" - Ike and Tina Turner, 1970
"If You Feel It, Say Yeah" - Fruit, 1978
"Galaxy" - War, 1978
"Words and Music" - The Beck Family, 1979
"Give Me Some More" - The Moments, 1974
"C...
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