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Video: Spencer Bohren & the Whippersnappers at Jazz & Heritage Center

Sun, 03/10/19

WWOZ was on hand to capture Spencer Bohren & the Whippersnappers live from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Center on March 9, 2019! Check out both sets below. Set One Set Two Read more

Dr. John: Jazz Fest at 50 Photo of the Day

Sun, 03/10/19

Authored by: Carrie Booher

Dr. John on the Fess Stage on May 4, 1986. Photo by Harold Baquet, courtesy of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Archive. 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 ... Read more

Faces of Mardi Gras

Sat, 03/09/19

Authored by: Carrie Booher

WWOZ show host Tom Roche created this happy Faces of Mardi Gras video! You might be in there-- check it out below. Read more

Spring 2019 at the Dew Drop (Mandeville)

Sat, 03/09/19

The Dew Drop Social & Benevolent Hall in Mandeville launches their Spring 2019 concert season on Saturday, March 9! All concerts run 6:30-9p unless otherwise noted. See the full schedule below: Saturday, March 9: Steve Pistorius & The Southern Syncopators Saturday, March 23... Read more

Vance Vaucresson: Jazz Fest Flashback

Sat, 03/09/19

Vaucresson Sausage is the only original food vendor remaining at Jazz Fest. The company's history with the festival goes even farther back than the first festival in 1970-- in the 1960s, Newport Jazz Fest founder George Wein and Pres Hall's Larry Borenstein and Allan Jaffe ... Read more

Fais Do Do: Jazz Fest at 50 Photo of the Day

Sat, 03/09/19

Authored by: Carrie Booher

Keeping it real at Fais Do Do on April 29, 2018! Photo by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee. 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 page, all year long to see them... Read more

Rhiannon Giddens: Jazz Fest at 50 Photo of the Day

Fri, 03/08/19

Authored by: Carrie Booher

Rhiannon Giddens on the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage in 2016. Photo by Leon Morris. 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 page, all year long to... Read more

Gerald French: Jazz Fest Flashback

Thu, 03/07/19

Gerald French is a jazz drummer, leader of the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, and Mardi Gras Indian. In this WWOZ Jazz Fest Flashback, he talks about the long history his family has at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, stemming all the way back to the very first Fest in... Read more