WWOZ brings together our local, national and international supporters into a distinctive community that celebrates and strengthens the music, musicians, culture and culture bearers of New Orleans.
What happens when you take young folks who are passionate about language, and
give them the time, space and resources to write and read?
Come find out. Sunday, April 6 at 3 p.m., NOCCA (New Orleans Center for
Creative Arts) will have a student reading featuring the departm...
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April 25-27 and May 1-4, 2008
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is probably the greatest music
festival on this planet. WWOZ brings you live broadcasts of 32 acts over
seven days.
Check out the WWOZ Jazz Fest Live Blog for seven days of amazing fun with
hundred ...
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If you like the recipe, then check out Louisiana Cookin' magazine. Subscribe
with the promotion code wwoz2010, and they'll donate $5 to WWOZ.
Serves 6 - 8
Preheat oven to 350° F
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
1 medium chopped onion
2 cloves minced garlic
2 10-ounce packages fr...
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If you like the recipe, then check out Louisiana Cookin' magazine. Subscribe
with the promotion code wwoz2010, and they'll donate $5 to WWOZ.
Serves four.
Ingredients:
1 cup butter
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 onions, minced
1 green bell pepper, diced
3 cloves garli...
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Dear Listener,
What a year it has been so far. In January, WWOZ won an Offbeat magazine
“Best of the Beat Award” for favorite radio station in the New Orleans
area. Next came our Spring Membership Drive at the beginning of March, where
we heard from over two thousand folks...
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When KIPP McDonough 15 started their new school year one year after Katrina,
music teacher Kelvin Harrison had no instruments with which to teach.
After he displays a little ingenuity and a lot of dedication, help comes from
the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation . . . and they...
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A short history of the Mardi Gras Indians music and remembrances of the Wild
Magnolia's first recordings with Willie Tee and John Sinclair's 30 years of
observing the tribe.
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A Valentine From WWOZ
We thought about what WWOZ would be like without our wonderful listeners and
supporters. You are the reason we get out of bed to come into the studio on
cold and rainy mornings. You are the ones we think about when we sit down at
Jazz Fest to inter...
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It's a rainy Saturday morning in January at the Robinson home in the Ninth
Ward, but it feels a little like Christmas as the kids gather around Aria
Martin, a volunteer from the Kid Camera Project.
The kids are receiving their graduation cameras. They were the first
parti...
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It's Wednesday night at Vaughn's and the place is packed, but tonight the
smoky Bywater bar is filled with an unfamiliar crowd.
Dozens of law students from Maryland are drinking cold beer and eating
barbeque before the show starts. But it is not Kermit Ruffins or Shamar Al...
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