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Blog posts for Valerie "The Problem Child" Kacprzak

Jimmy the Kid Rides Into Town

Authored by: Valerie "The Problem Child" Kacprzak [Show Host]
Submitted: Fri, 12/09/2011 - 9:40am
Tag(s): Show host blog
Special Show Air Time: Friday, December 9, 2011

Jimbo Mathus is saddled up and ready to ride into town. He is heading toward the Quarters and the Blues Breakdown Show, with your hostess "The Problem Child".

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Haunted Songs: Murder Ballads, Ghost Solos & The Devil's Chord

Authored by: Valerie "The Problem Child" Kacprzak [Show Host]
Submitted: Mon, 10/31/2011 - 3:13pm
Tag(s): Show host blog

It's time to take the skeletons out of the closet, and put them in the yard! We might decorate ourselves and join in the ghost parade. We may take a peek into the mouth of horror, a dark cave of unknown things.

What lurks in the dark? What will we find when we stand at death's door?

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Storm Worn and Born to Rock! The Drive-by Truckers Tonight!

Authored by: Valerie "The Problem Child" Kacprzak [Show Host]
Submitted: Sat, 09/03/2011 - 11:29am
Tag(s): Show host blog

...Lee approaching Atchafalaya Bay...heavy rains...strong gusty
winds...and possible tornadoes lashing southeastern Louisiana...

It's Saturday morning and New Orleans is under Tropical Storm Warning. Big Whoop. A little storm isn't going to stop The Drive-By Truckers from playing Tipitina's, tonight!

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The Voice that stopped my heart - Dax Riggs in New Orleans

Authored by: Valerie "The Problem Child" Kacprzak [Show Host]
Submitted: Sun, 08/21/2011 - 6:43pm
Tag(s): Live music review and Show host blog

 

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Foburg (a Music Festival) and friends

Authored by: Valerie "The Problem Child" Kacprzak [Show Host]
Submitted: Fri, 03/11/2011 - 10:30am
Tag(s): Show host blog

This weekend the Foburg takes off in the wake of Mardi Gras Madness. Foburg is March 11-13 featuring local young bands, and some from out of town. Sort of along the lines of South/Southwest.

Young New Orleans singer songwriter Jason Frilot will come in to talk about his new CD, and Foburg Fest.

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Youngblood Got Heart: Alvin Youngblood Hart's Back in Town and Coming to the Blues Breakdown

Authored by: Valerie "The Problem Child" Kacprzak [Show Host]
Submitted: Thu, 01/27/2011 - 7:52pm
Tag(s): Show host blog

I had written a long entry all about AYH and the show at the Maple Leaf uptown when he joined Jimbo Mathus & The Tri-State Coalition in the second set and they rocked the doors off the place 'til it sounded like a Mississippi Jukejoint, or a Country Church..but the site crashed and I lost it.

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Dark passages and stranger candy (The Blues Breakdown new time, one day only)

Authored by: Valerie "The Problem Child" Kacprzak [Show Host]
Submitted: Thu, 10/28/2010 - 2:10am
Tag(s): 2010 Voodoo Experience and Show host blog

Shadowy figures in darkened corners, lurking strangers, Unknown creatures stalk the forgotten rooms and evanescent corridors of the mind.. Such is the currency of the horror film. Of the particularly human art of scaring ourselves. Halloween.

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A Cure for Pain

Authored by: Valerie "The Problem Child" Kacprzak [Show Host]
Submitted: Fri, 10/22/2010 - 6:37pm
Tag(s): Show host blog

Morphine lives on in The Members of Morphine, with Jeremy Lyons AKA The Ever Expanding Elastic Wasteband. They played live today on the Blues Breakdown, community radio style, raw and minimal.

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Extreme Gardening with a Man Named Pearl!

Authored by: Valerie "The Problem Child" Kacprzak [Show Host]
Submitted: Fri, 10/15/2010 - 5:52pm
Tag(s): Show host blog

One of the things that saved my life after a series of unfortunate events was A Man Named Pearl. I am talking about Pearl Fryar from Bishopville South Carolina.

Pearl is an artist in the most purest form. A folk artist. A genius.

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Casting Spells on Canal Street

Authored by: Valerie "The Problem Child" Kacprzak [Show Host]
Submitted: Sun, 09/26/2010 - 2:38pm
Tag(s): Show host blog

Meanwhiile, back in another part of town,…

A small crowd gathered to see a wild eyed madman torture his guitar until it bled the truth, in red white and blue.

I sat back in the shadows fearing his laser beam eyes would sear a hole through my brain. My head was dizzy and my soul was on fire as the first tones shot from his weapon (cleverly disguised as a flat top guitar)..

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Big Plans for Big 7

Authored by: Christy [Show Host]
Submitted: Thu, 02/02/2012 - 2:20pm
Tag(s): Mardi Gras and Show host blog
Special Show Air Time: Friday, February 3, 2012 - 10:00am - 10:30am
Original Big 7 Cultural & Heritage Division

A space for kids to discover their talents and celebrate their own amazing culture: second lines, brass bands, Mardi Gras Indians and more - that's what the Original Big 7 Cultural Division provides. Take the Red Flame Hunters: the Big 7's own Mardi Gras Indian tribe, composed entirely of children (with some mighty grown-up design and sewing skills).

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A vintage DJ, a trombone player, live music, and Mardi Gras Indians!

Authored by: Raymond Kent [Show Host]
Submitted: Thu, 02/02/2012 - 8:33am
Tag(s): Show host blog
Special Show Air Time: Friday, February 3, 2012 - 6:00am - 9:00am

This Friday, February 3rd from 6 to 9 a.m. during the Friday Morning Set and at The Jazz Crossroads we observe the birthday of (and I play a request from) a man who was a WWOZ show host for 24 years!

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Missing from Wednesday - I'm at IBC in Memphis

Authored by: Big D [Show Host]
Submitted: Sun, 01/29/2012 - 1:34pm
Tag(s): Show host blog

I have been missing for two weeks and will be out for one more week. The last two I had work that kept me away from the city on Wednesday. This week while I will be working during the day I will be on Beale Street each evening for The International Blues Challenge. IBC is the largest gathering of blues band in the world.

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Paul Robeson In Songs and Spirit

Authored by: Sally Young [Show Host]
Submitted: Wed, 01/25/2012 - 1:37pm
Tag(s): Show host blog

Susan Robeson, granddaughter of the late, great Paul Robeson will be in WWOZ's studio Thursday morning to talk about her grandfather's life and music, & honoring his legacy through the Paul Robeson Foundation.

Tune in to the Traditional Jazz Show Thursday 9- 11 AM New Orleans time on WWOZ 90.7 FM.

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New Orleans writers and artists wanted

Authored by: Mark LaMaire [Show Host]
Submitted: Wed, 01/25/2012 - 11:48am
Tag(s): Show host blog

New Orleanians are invited to enter short works and artwork for New Orleans by New Orleans, an upcoming collection of stories and art inspired by New Orleans and the people who live there.

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