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WWOZ Spans the World

Authored by: Jelly Roll Justice [Show Host]
Submitted: Mon, 04/15/2013 - 4:55pm
Tag(s): Show host blog

Arts Minister in Melbourne - Another Jazz Fest Fan

 

One of the great annual events for us at WWOZ is broadcasting live from the Jazz and Heritage Festival and sharing the music and the musicians with fans around the planet.

 

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The New Orleans Piano Tradition

Authored by: David Stafford
Submitted: Mon, 04/15/2013 - 9:49am
Tag(s): Jazz Fest
The Parish at the House of Blues

We're two weeks from WWOZ's Piano Night at the House of Blues, a night which celebrates the New Orleans piano tradition.

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BILL’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY FRENCH QUARTER FEST PICKS! – part 2

Authored by: Bill DeTurk [Show Host]
Submitted: Sat, 04/13/2013 - 8:43am
Tag(s): Show host blog

 

Congratulations to all my friends at The French Quarter Fest on this special 30th anniversary celebration!  This year the largest free music festival in the South features 271 performers on 21 stages, as well as, par normal, the world’s largest jazz brunch in Jackson Square.

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Let's Talk About Some Music. The EMP Pop Music Conference is Coming to Town, April 19-21!

Authored by: Soul Sister [Show Host]
Submitted: Fri, 04/12/2013 - 1:11pm
Tag(s): Show host blog

Heads up about a really cool (and free) conference coming to town over the weekend of April 19-21.

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Davell Crawford presented by Thursday Night Swingin'

On Thursdays, WWOZ and Prime Example present a concert series that allows patrons to enjoy the the city's most swingin' and soulful (homegrown) legends of modern New Orleans jazz in an intimate, neighborhood lounge setting. Read More

 

 

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BIIL’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY FRENCH QUARTER FEST PICKS! – part 1

Authored by: Bill DeTurk [Show Host]
Submitted: Thu, 04/11/2013 - 8:33am
Tag(s): Show host blog

 

Congratulations to all my friends at The French Quarter Fest on this special 30th anniversary celebration!  This year the largest free music festival in the South features 271 performers on 21 stages, as well as, par normal, the world’s largest jazz brunch in Jackson Square.

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Second Lining in the Snow?

Authored by: Jamie Dell'Apa [Show Host]
Submitted: Wed, 04/10/2013 - 11:04pm
Tag(s): Reflections and rants and Show host blog
Lillian Boutte at the Roger Ebert Second Line

New Orleans musicians and an auditorium full of appreciative fans of our music created a second line for Roger Ebert, the film critic and

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"Musically Speaking:" free screening of 'The Five Heartbeats'

Featuring interviews from Bonnie Raitt, Erykah Badu, Eric Clapton, Branford Marsalis, Dave Matthews, Les Paul, Elvis Costello, and more, this documentary takes a critical look at the increasing commercialization of music over the past three decades.

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WWOZ/Angola Prison Music Project Needs CDs

WWOZ has an ongoing Music Project with KLSP-91.7 FM, the Angola Prison radio station where all the deejays are inmates. We are currently collecting quality CDs that we will deliver to Angola later this month. Find out more about this project and how you can help.
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"Jazz in the Park"

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On this week’s program, we preview the upcoming Jazz in the Park, a nine-week music and marketplace series, taking place in Armstrong Park. Running from April 18th to June 13th. During the hour, we also visit Cowbell, a restaurant in the River Bend section of New Orleans to talk with Brack May about everything from growing up eating Hawaiian food to the local food scene over some grass fed beef.
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