We're sharing some highlights from last year's Danny Barker Banjo & Guitar
Festival! Get out there and check out this year's fest, Jan. 15-19. Here's a
Danny Barker Tribute Band performing 'Just For A Little While' at WWOZ,
January 2019. The band features Leroy Jones, Fredd...
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We're sharing some highlights from last year's Danny Barker Banjo & Guitar
Festival! Get out there and check out this year's fest, Jan. 15-19. Here's
Gregg Stafford and his band performing 'Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come
Home' at the New Orleans Jazz Museum, January 201...
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We're sharing some highlights from last year's Danny Barker Banjo & Guitar
Festival! Get out there and check out this year's fest, Jan. 15-19. Here's
Wendell Brunious performing 'Save the Bones for Henry Jones' at the New
Orleans Jazz Museum, January 2019.
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We're sharing some highlights from last year's Danny Barker Banjo & Guitar
Festival! Get out there and check out this year's fest, Jan. 15-19. Here's
Mari Watanabe performing 'Squeeze Me' at the New Orleans Jazz Museum, January
2019.
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The Folk Alliance International Conference is coming to New Orleans this
year and WWOZ is partnering with the good people at the conference to give
a special shoutout to the Louisiana-based Official Showcase artists and the
work they’re doing to strengthen the arts communit...
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1 Ain't It Funky Now Jimmy McGriff 03:40 If You're Ready
2 O-O-H Child Angie Stone 03:06 Covered in Soul
3 The Same Love That Made Me Laugh Bill Withers 03:25 +'Justments
4 You'll Be Lonely Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings 03:46 Give the People What
They Want
5 Heavy Metal Blues ...
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Tune into WWOZ over the coming days as we celebrate the life and legacy of
the great Danny Barker in conjunction with the 6th annual Danny Barker Banjo
& Guitar Festival! Here's what's on tap (subject to change):
Monday, Jan. 13
9-11am Trad Jazz show host Dan Meyer will be...
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New Orleans rapper, producer, and actor Jerome Cosey, better known as 5th
Ward Weebie, has died from complications after a heart attack at the age of
42. He was a prominent part of the first wave of bounce musicians in New
Orleans in the 1990s and went on to have a fluorish...
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David Torkanowsky and Evan Christopher joined us in the studio on Jazz From
The French Market this afternoon! Check out their performance below.
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WWOZ video was in the streets for Twelfth Night, the official start of the
2020 Carnival season, on Monday, January 6! Check out this video featuring
festivities at the Bywater Bakery's king cake kickoff, the Big Chief Tootie
Montana celebration at Congo Square, Joan of Arc...
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