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A year after the explosion on the BP Deepwater Horizon rig killed 11 workers and became the largest marine oil spill in history, things are not back to normal. Find out more about current benefits and ways that you can help clean up the Gulf.
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WWOZ encourages listeners to help our waterlogged sister city of Nashville, TN. Musicians from that region including Kenny Chesney and Michelle Branch are still figuring out what they've lost, and the Grand Ole Opry is under several feet of water, destroying equipment, tapes a...
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We bring you the sounds of Cyril Neville and Tribe 13 captured live at the
2009 Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival in New Orleans' Lafayette Square.
Along the way, we introduce you to artist and poet Jose Torres Tama as he
discusses his work in the book “New Orleans: Free...
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HARMONIKIDS TO PROVIDE UNIQUE MUSIC THERAPY TO EARTHQUAKE SURVIVORS/CHILD
SLAVERY VICTIMS IN HAITI
April 30, 2010, Los Angeles, CA. ~ In the second week of May, Blues musician
Gary Allegretto will take his nonprofit organization Harmonikids
(http://www.harmonikids.org) on ...
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I got called out the other day for getting it wrong in my last blog. Got called out by no less than the co-producer of Treme, Eric Overmyer, in front of no less a knowledgeable audience than Sync-Up, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s symposium for music insiders. Go...
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