Nothing beats a WWOZ party! Celebrating the sounds of New Orleans and the power of community radio. Here's a highlight from the final day of our Spring 2015 Membership Drive at Kermit's Mother-in-Law Lounge as Kermit Ruffins & the BBQ Swingers performed 'Marie.' Read more

Happy birthday to Little Freddie King (July19)! He's performing Thursday night at d.b.a. and celebrating another trip around the sun with a Blues Birthday Bash at BJ's  on Friday night starting at 10p.  Read more

In early 2015, George Ingmire sat down with Papa Mali, Tom McDermott, Trombone Shorty, David Torkanowsky, Amasa Miller, James Patterson, music director at Snug Harbor, and Kyle Roussel, to get their take on what made Henry Butler such a powerful pianist. This piece also inc... Read more

Master percussionist Hamid Drake visited New Orleans in June 2018 and among other gigs, did a set with New Orleans-based musicians Rob Wagner and Nobu Ozaki at the Allways Lounge. This video is an excerpt from an improvisation on a tune by Wagner. An earlier studio recordin... Read more

Video from the Maafa Commemoration 2017, featuring Luther Gray and poet Sunni Patterson. WWOZ filmed the middle of the 6 hour Remembrance and Healing ceremony at the Mississippi riverside. The ceremony began and ended at Congo Square. This year's commemoration will be happe... Read more

A highlight from Zachary Richard's appearance at WWOZ on April 13, 2018. He described this song as "a classic European ballad in which a young girl dies. If you wanted to have a hit in the 1600s, you would have this young girl and a solider who would go off into the war, co... Read more

A highlight from the winter-- Leyla McCalla and Helen Gillet joined us in the studio and performed 'Girls' off of Leyla's Langston Hughes tribute album. Read more

New Orleans' The Soul Rebels joined The Genius himself for a Tiny Desk Concert last month. The reclusive GZA performed 3 songs from his 1995 solo album, Liquid Swords -- 'Living In The World Today,' 'Duel of the Iron Mic,' and the title track, 'Liquid Swords.' "The Soul Re... Read more

It's Pride Fest this weekend! Check out the performance schedule for Saturday, June 9. It includes TBC Brass Band, as seen here last March at WWOZ. They're performing at 2:15p in front of the Phoenix (Elysian Fields & Rampart).  Read more

Robert Finley lives in the small town of Bernice, Louisiana, right near the Arkansas line. In his younger days, music took him all over the world. He served in the Army as a teenager, went to Europe as a helicopter technician, but soon switched to serve as the leader of the... Read more