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Video: Charmaine Neville at WWOZ - March 2020

Tue, 03/10/20
Charmaine Neville and her band joined us for a live performance on the Trad Jazz show earlier today! Check out their performance below. If you appreciate the station that brings you more live music than any other, be a part of our number and become a member today! Read more

Video: Brother Dege at WWOZ

Tue, 03/10/20
Brother Dege joined us for a live performance on the Blues Breakdown on Friday! Check out his performance below. If you appreciate the station that brings you more live music than any other, be a part of our number and become a member today! Read more

Video: Forro NOLA at WWOZ

Tue, 03/10/20
Forro NOLA joined us for a live performance on Tudo Bem on Saturday! Check out their performance below. If you appreciate the station that brings you more live music than any other, be a part of our number and become a member today! Read more

WWOZ is tattooed on my heart

Tue, 03/10/20
Authored by Leslie Cooper
When I sit at the sound board during my Tuesday morning show I think fondly of the first time I heard WWOZ. I was visiting a friend back in 1983 for Mardi Gras. I was amazed to hear early jazz and Mardi Gras classics being played. I asked her “What is this?!?!?!?!” I was in... Read more

WWOZ wins two awards from the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters

Tue, 03/10/20
Authored by Carrie Booher
The Louisiana Association of Broadcasters honored WWOZ’s Takin’ It To The Streets and our live broadcast from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival with a Prestige Award at their annual ceremony earlier today in Baton Rouge.  WWOZ took the top award in the state in the ... Read more

Video: Little Freddie King 'Baby, Please Don't Go'

Mon, 03/09/20
Little Freddie King and Wacko Wade joined us for a live performance on the Blues Eclectic earlier today! Check out their performance of 'Baby, Please Don't Go' below. If you appreciate the station that brings you more live music than any other, be a part of our number and b... Read more

Video: Dave Jordan & the NIA 'Neighbors'

Mon, 03/09/20
Dave Jordan & the NIA joined us for a live performance on the New Orleans Music Show earlier today! Check out their performance of 'Neighbors' below. If you appreciate the station that brings you more live music than any other, be a part of our number and become a member to... Read more

Video: The New Orleans Spiritualettes 'Glory'

Mon, 03/09/20
The New Orleans Spiritualettes joined us for a live performance on the Gospel Show with host Lauren Mastro on Sunday morning! Check out their performance of 'Glory' below. If you appreciate the station that brings you more live music than any other, be a part of our number ... Read more

The Feel of 'OZ

Mon, 03/09/20
Authored by Murf Reeves
It is so many things - The sound of the hallway, the radio waves wafting through. The bustle of the day’s melody as on-air rhythms touch the rhythms of accounting, organizing, planning and listening. Sometimes, a quiet sound at night when the offices have gone dark, waiting... Read more

From a real-life, living, breathing, occasionally-fumbling, always-striving radio DJ

Sun, 03/08/20
Authored by Your Cousin Dimitri
In these days of media consolidation, if only one place in the world were to be left with a unique, homegrown, locally-focused radio station, it should be New Orleans. There’s no other place in America where so many people can name dozens of local bands and musicians. I kn... Read more

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