New Orleans All the Way Live is an internationally syndicated weekly radio show produced by George Ingmire highlighting the unique music, food, festivals, and culture of the Crescent City. Ingmire culls from WWOZ’s vast library of live recordings and connects with musicians from across the city to bring you one-of-a-kind music and musician interviews—from flagship music festivals to living room concerts.
The program captures the rich heritage of our city's music with Jazz, Funk, R&B, Zydeco, Blues, and more, all from nationally recognized artists as well as locally beloved heroes. Expect it all!
Every show also brings you right to the heart of our food and festival culture with audio segments on local cuisine, chats with chefs, and interviews with festival goers and producers alike.
Our third season has many great things in store: "Live from the Living Room" - a series of intimate recordings and interviews; "3 Months in 3 Minutes" - a seasonal rundown of upcoming festivals brought to you by GoNola.com and WWOZ; and more "Culinary Crossroads" as we continue our journey throughout New Orleans, interviewing chefs, cultivators and street vendors.
WWOZ and GoNola.Com, the principal sponsor for the program, are proud to make the New Orleans All the Way Live weekly shows available to all community radio stations at no cost! The program is also supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
As New Orleans All the Way Live celebrates its third year of programming, we would like to thank some of the stations in the U.S. that continue to air us weekly: WMOT Nashville, TN; WJSU Jackson, MS; KEDM Monroe, LA; WBCX Gainesville, GA; Red River Radio (Louisiana/Arkansas); KGOU Norman, OK; KOTO Telluride, CO; WTIP Grand Marais, MN; WDRT Viroqua, WI; KPOV Bend, OR - as well as our international syndicates in Australia (ARTSOUND) and Puerto Rico (WRTU.)
You can listen to New Orleans All the Way Live on WWOZ every Saturday morning from 7-8am and you can listen online to recent episodes from the archive section below.
Did you listen to the show and love it? Want to hear it on your local station? WWOZ wants to tell the world about New Orleans and support community radio, so we’ve made New Orleans All the Way Live available at no cost! Contact SherriLynn now for more information about how your station can air the show or see our New Orleans All the Way Live syndication details.

On any given night in New Orleans, you’re likely to find a place with live music and free food. Sometimes it’s red beans and traditional jazz, other times it’s BBQ and the blues. On this week’s program, it’s curry and the Pocket Brass of Magnetic Ear, an ensemble headed by Martin Krusche, a sax player from Munich who now makes his home in the 9th ward of New Orleans. We’ll be listening to Magnetic Ear, recorded live at the Blue Nile by WWOZ in New Orleans, as well as meeting up with bandleader Martin Krusche to find out how he made his way to New Orleans. And to sweeten the pot, we join Martin in his kitchen as he prepares the curry for his band mates and audience.

One often hears the phrase: “New Orleans: the birthplace of jazz” and there’s a plenty of reasons that support that. What sometimes gets lost in all of it is the ongoing jazz scene in the city, from brass ensembles to more progressive forms. Today’s program is a peek into the more progressive side, featuring the Rob Wagner Trio with Rob Wagner on saxophone, James Alsanders on Drums and Jesse Morrow on Bass, recorded at Snug Harbor in the fall of 2011. We also stop by the Neutral Ground, New Orleans oldest Coffeehouse which also facilitates live music.

On today’s show, John Ellis and Double Wide provides the musical mischief, recorded live at the Blue Nile on Frenchman Street in New Orleans. As for food, we walk the culinary tightrope between some hearty fried pork belly and a salad of seasonal offerings, all brought to you by John Harris of Lilette Restaurant.

On this week’s program, we enjoy the music of Kermit Ruffins, Glen David Andrews and Soul Rebels Brass Band. We also grab a burger, either grass-fed beef or vegetarian (take your pick) at Cowbell, a restaurant in the Riverbend section of New Orleans. And then we meet up with Sandy McNamara at the newly reopened Joy Theater on Canal Street.