WWOZ brings together our local, national and international supporters into a distinctive community that celebrates and strengthens the music, musicians, culture and culture bearers of New Orleans.
1) This Friday and Saturday, WWOZ and New Orleans Airlift are honored to
host the Sun Ra Arkestra, historic pioneers of the musical language of human
liberation through Afrofuturism, under the legendary leadership of Director
Marshall Allen at the Music Box Village. This is...
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Longtime WWOZ show host Billy Delle has passed away at the age of 76. His
family announced his cause of death as Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. He
hosted Records From The Crypt on WWOZ, hours of "scratchy 45s," as he
referred to them, of New Orleans R&B from the 1950s and 1...
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The Silver Swan Ragtime Interpreters joined host Sally Young in the studio
this morning for a hopping Thursday morning! Check out their set below.
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Improv Across The Arts, a Tricentennial Conference, will be taking place at
venues across New Orleans starting Friday, November 30 and running through
Sunday, December 1. This dynamic conference is bringing together
internationally known performers, artists, and scholars in...
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Landry Walker's The Chosen Ones Brass Band joined us in the studio this
afternoon for the November edition of School Groove! Check out their
performance below. This is the group that won the 'Class Got Brass'
competition last spring.
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Check out the new video from Michot's Melody Makers for 'La lune est
croche,' off their debut album Blood Moon. Lots to come for this group that
features members of Lost Bayou Ramblers, including an album release party at
Saturn Bar on Saturday, November 24.
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