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Video: The Iguanas 'Machete'

Wed, 10/09/19
The Iguanas joined us in the studio Tuesday afternoon to show their support for WWOZ during our fall membership drive! Check it out below, and support our streams and broadcasts of New Orleans community radio to the universe all day, every day by becoming a member.  Read more

Video: Dinosaurchestra 'You Don't Know What Love Is'

Wed, 10/09/19
Dinosaurchestra joined us in the studio Tuesday morning to show their support for WWOZ during our fall membership drive! Check it out below, and support our streams and broadcasts of New Orleans community radio to the universe all day, every day by becoming a member.  Read more

Golden Star Hunters: Jazz Fest at 50 Photo of the Day

Tue, 10/08/19
Authored by Carrie Booher
Golden Star Hunters Black Indians of Mardi Gras on the Jazz & Heritage Stage in 2011. Photo by Richie Drouant. In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary in 2019, we're featuring a Jazz Fest photo of the day with our audience. Keep your eyes here, and at our Jazz Fest 50 p... Read more

Welcome to our galaxy

Tue, 10/08/19
Authored by Maryse Déjean
I had no idea that an accidental turn of the dial in the early 1990’s would completely change my life! That serendipitous event turned me into an avid listener of WWOZ, and then to an off-air volunteer, an on-air sub, then a full-fledged show host and, finally, a full time ... Read more

Morning Set 10/08/19

Tue, 10/08/19
Authored by Allan "Alski" Laskey
1     People Get Ready     Reuben Wilson / Bernard 'Pretty' Purdie / Grant Green Jr.     06:13     The Godfathers Of Groove 2     God Bless The Child (Live)     Esther Phillips     06:55     Home Is Where The Hatred Is: The Kudus Years 1971-1977 3     Nature Boy     Ike Queb... Read more

WWOZ at the Fairgrounds in the mid 1990s: Jazz Fest at 50 Photo of the Day

Mon, 10/07/19
Authored by Carrie Booher
WWOZ broadcast from the Fairgrounds in the mid-1990s. Pictured: Michael Klein, David Freedman, Sharon McKenna. Jenna Phillips made the Professor Longhair head. Photo by Ice Cube Slim, courtesy of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Archive.  In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anni... Read more

Video: Alexey Marti at WWOZ

Mon, 10/07/19
Alexey Marti joined us in the studio Friday afternoon to show his support for WWOZ during our fall membership drive! Check it out below, and support our streams and broadcasts of New Orleans community radio to the universe all day, every day by becoming a member.  Read more

It's Time to Get In Where You Fit In

Sun, 10/06/19
Authored by Scott Borne
"Way before I ever became a show host or Music Director at WWOZ, I was a listener. That magical feeling of getting introduced to music I had never heard before was a huge piece of what attracted me to the station initially, and I have always tried to keep that idea front an... Read more

Peggy Lou doesn't do computers. So she wrote you this note.

Sun, 10/06/19
"We wished on The Harvest Moon that somewhere in the theater of your mind you will care about us as much as we truly care about you. I came to New Orleans to learn and love and it turned out to be better than homemade ice cream on a hot summer day... "Forever and always gi... Read more

'80s Shortwave Flashback

Sun, 10/06/19
Authored by Jorge Fuentes
"I found WWOZ back in the late eighties, playing with a short wave radio I kept in my room. I was first attracted to the sounds coming from stations from around the world, and then realized that I could get the same feeling from the music that played on this local station: ... Read more

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