What Does WWOZ Mean to You?

on my first trip to New Orleans many years ago, I found WWOZ on the radio and was directed to a 2nd line parade. After Katrina, I reconnected with 'OZ via its webcasts. I've yet to visit any city in the world like New Orleans: not Paris, not London, not Rome, not NYC. New Orleans is special, and 'OZ reflects those special qualities that go beyond music and deep into culture.

Keep doing what you're doing with the website. Its a portal into the richness of America's greatest treasures.

WWOZ feeds its listeners passions like no other web-accessible radio station I know. Thank you

hi my name is emily,
i found out about wwoz when i came down on a missions trip with my church (st pauls paris ont and first united cambridge ont.)we were on the missions trip to help rebuild from hurricane katrina through the presbytarian disaster assistance.wow what a life changing experience and id do it again if i had the money to do sooo.anyways on the one day of wrk our construction assistant took us on a bit o0f a tour while killing a little time before witnessing a house dedication.while everybody else on our team along with our homeowner piled into the 2 rental vans that we had i got the priviladge to ride with our construction assistant and one bit of info i found really really touching is that this VERY radio station was the one and only radiostaion to not only survive through katrina but was also playing live through katrina.so then i made sure to make a note of your radio station.once i got back home to canada i found the radio station online and found out that i could listen live.since then whenever iam on my laptopi turn you guys on live to listen too.you guys have awsome awsome music and it brings a change to my day. kudos to you all at wwoz for all the hard wrk to make the programming possible to listen to live even all the way up here in canada.

loving it,always listening to it,
emily kew
Paris,ontario
canada

Hi WWOZ, My name is Kane

Im from Gold Coast, Australia. I listen to your channel everyday!!! You Rock! MUCH LOVE WWOZ. XO

WWOZ is a godsend for getting me through the workday in Atlanta. I found OZ online about a year and a half ago and really enjoy the energy as well as the music coming through my earphones. I especially like when musicians drop by the station for a chat and to play a few tunes. It’s amazing how many talented people come through the station. Ya’ll do a great job- thanks.

Pete

Gotta love WWOZ - Guardians of the Flame keepin on...
The music, the people, the food, the fun... New Orleans
Anders, June, Stanton, Buddy, Ervin all make life worthwhile

;>)

Living a long way from NOLA, I began listening to the internet stream shortly after Katrina. And it has become a daily habit.

That said, I'll be brief, OZ is the single most important broadcast on the planet earth.

Negative energy abounds, planet wide. 'OZ ionizes much of that, leveling the cosmic level of desitively bonaroo-ness..in other words: makes the world a better place. We protect redwoods, Grand Canyon,...let's protect Fats/Snooks/Dave/Fess/brass band/live broadcast/Danny/Satch-laden airwaves.A national treasure. Ionize on, 'OZ! Ionizing the cosmos since 1981.

Greetings from Vancouver, Canada. My wife worked at the Canadian pavillion at the 1984 World's Fair and lived in New Orleans for six months. I visited in 1988 on a swing through Louisiana and east Texas. For both of us, the experience was profound. WWOZ allows us to feel again the wonderful vibe of the city whenever we listen. We have promised each other that we will be back! Until then, thanks so much for the music. Michael King/Laurel Enright

Enjoyin Paul Sanchez on one of New Orleans' last great radio stations from the east coast of Fife, Scotland.

Thanks for the New Orleans sounds and vibes; Will one day travel the long way to the Big Easy and visit to say HI! Think I should have been born there...

wwelburn -- I started listening to WWOZ on a trip to New Orleans many years ago, 'OZ directed this "tourist" to a 2nd Line Parade. After Katrina, I discovered "OZ's online presence, which was vital not only to the residents but to those who love, value, and respect how important New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are to American culture.

I do the easiest thing by keeping my membership going. In exchange I get fine quality programming year round (especially during Mardi Gras). WWOZ may be the single best musical presence on the Internet because it reflects its community and culture so well. The rest of us around the world are lucky that you support us as music listeners.

Milwaukee, WI

Hey out there in OZ Land! Isn't www.wwoz.com the greatest?!

So why and how for me starts with the quality, variety, and heart of program presentations that are outstanding - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Thank you dj's, thank you, thank you, thank you.

During the course of our evenings and weekends, OZ is streaming into our dining room and kitchen. The tunes add so much to our evening and weekend experience. While I understand and enjoy Pandora, it is a format and it doesn't feel like there is a hand on the wheel, as the music takes these weird turns which feel like being lost on aisle 10 at the supermarket.

The weird at WOZ never loses me. It swings. It has intent. It is unique. (Stolen from Mose Allison.)

So, that's the why and how, here in Lafayette, California - small suburban town, in the East Bay of San Francisco.

See you in NOLA!

Nathan

(p.s. While previewing this post, I noticed the date as 12/31/1969 @ 7PM. Weird. Today, the day of the post is Oct 5, 2010, and it's just past midnight.)

Yeah You Right!

Just renewed my membership during Hazel's show. OZ is great all week, but Sunday is my favorite day. Brother Jessie's awesome Gospel, Hazel brings me back to my Appalachian family roots. The Cajun/Zydeco show is soooo wonderful. Heck, most of the time I have no idea what they're singing, but who cares? The sound reaches your soul. Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys!

I've been an expat up here in New England since '03. WWOZ brings me home!

Thanks to everyone that helps bring OZ into my home. Especially when it's snowing out here!

Why do you listen to WWOZ?
Robbie Zimmerman told me about OZ when I was rereading "Chronicles" maybe 2 years ago and I thought "I wonder if that station has a web feed?" and found the greatest radio station of all time. Wife and I listen almost round the clock. When I bought Hazel's CD for my wife I sent the insert and she autographed it and when I realizedf a lifelong dream and went to NOLA we "ambushed" her outside the station on Sunday morning to get a photo of her with the wife. I think we initially scared her we were so excited. Cousin Dimitri is the greatest thing to hit the airwaves since Zacherle and Allison Steele (NY, 60's).

Mike and Gloria, Tampa (we don't go "down" to New Orleans, we go "Up")

I don't remember how I found WWOZ on the Internet. When I was 16 I stayed in your great city for a few days and fell in love with the music, food and people. That was 45 years ago and I have been a fan of jazz as well as other good music.

It's great to find a station that is commercial free and to be able to listen all the way up here in Northern New York about 1/2 hour from Canada and to listen to music from a great city I will always have special place in my heart for.

When you listen to commercial radio and hear the same thing over and over AND over gain,it's easy to love a staion like OZ.The thing about that comment is,there IS no other like OZ.In addition,OZ shares some REALLY GREAT music that I would never have known existed had I listened anywhere else.With that I'm caught like a fish....
Ceasar Elloie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l77TF-UHWw

I just found WWOZ on the net and I am loving it! I'm from Chicago and have been a very frequesnt visitor to New Orleans since the 80's. I havent been there since Dec 04 and am missing it much. OZ bring the music and people of New Orleans to me. Like New Orleans, there isnt anything I dont like about OZ. I consider New Orleans a second home, and I hope all is well for the wonderful people and their city! April is the soonest I can get down there so until then I'll rely on OZ! Much love from Chicago

...which is what makes this comment on the home page --"I love the Brass Pass because I can sit in the nice, cool Hospitality Tent and wave to my friends as they pass by in the heat" -- REPUGNANT.

Are you sayin, sir, that because YOU can afford a brass pass that you are better than me...?

Kurt
It is the best station in the country for variety of good music, and featuring the many great mucicians of New orleans and surrounding southern states. I keep wondering if WWOZ will try a deal with Sirius XM , because traditional jazz for one is not represented nearly enough on their stations. I am a drummer and practice frequently with OZ live in my ears!

Life is tough. No matter who you are or where you are from or where you are off to, we all gotta walk that desert path, alone often, talkin' to yourself and givin' your own self some back- talk sass. Then you find WWOZ. The path you walk is the same tough path, but dude, what a soundtrack! 'OZ is the armor, the backbone that allows mere mortals to make it from one day to the next, intact and knowing, beyond all else, that we are Ozileans, that we are loved, that we are New Orleanians wherever we are (and wherever we are from).

WWOZ broadcasts some of the best music on the planet for sure. But also there is a by-product I enjoy especially. I enjoy learning about the artist’s background and the origin of the music and the interesting history of New Orleans. Your show hosts are highly educated about their musical genre. I feel like I’m getting a PhD in traditional New Orleans jazz history.

It’s mind blowing to learn that the show hosts are unpaid volunteers. They are volunteering an incredible amount of their time to preserve this important part of our American musical heritage.

WWOZ is truly a national treasure and deserves support.

Gordon Lee, a grateful OZillion from
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Darling 504

I've been so INCREDIBLY homesick for New Orleans, until I even have the "Official Louisiana Tour Guide" mailed to my home in The Bronx; I read the tour guide on the crowded subway as though it were a novel. I find myself continuously amazed at the amazingly colorful history of my home state, the likes of which were NEVER taught in high school nor civics classes!

And so... in addition to my self-induced, continued interest and love for New Orleans, I make it my business to listen to 'OZ every work day here at my desk. There are just SO many of the really old songs, many of which I've only heard here on 'OZ, for the very first time. My favorite on is "Don't You Feel My Leg" by Blue Lou!! They keep me smiling and laughing and just over all in a good mood, even when it snows like crazy up here, which it is always inclined to doing!!

I particularly love the comfort-sound of Tom Morgan's smooth, laid-back voice as well as his show. I've found out just SO much musical and geographic history from 'OZ... much more than I ever did in school!

Stay Live, Yawl!!

Darling 504

Having resided in The Bronx now for the past 31 years, working in Queens County New York, causes me to miss home more than ever before! That's why ALL 5 days every week at work, I make it my business to tune into 'OZ, online - the reason should be more than obvious to anyone who shares my passion for the station, its contents, not to mention the very colorful hosts/hostesses; Bob French, due to his A.M. show, being amongst THE most flamboyant, Bless his Heart!

SO.. since I'm stuck "doin' time" in the Big Apple until such time as I retire and move back home, 'OZ is my constant reminder & radio companion to stay on track with my desire & to keep my finger on the pulse of My Beloved New Orleans!

I've even gotten my NY co-worker all too familiar with 'OZ & MR. "Tuxedo Band" French!

YEEEESinDEED!

I was a trombone player who hated trombone. I joined the Marines to escape music, but ended up getting stationed in New Orleans with the Marine Band there. My life was changed in an instant.

I guess my story is like a lot of people. I came to New Orleans and just had no idea that it would change my life forever. The music is ALIVE here. In most places in the world, music is background noise to ignore while you go about your life. In New Orleans, music IS your life.

I am up in New York finishing a degree in music and get down to NOLA to play as much as I can. I also travel with my own New Orleans-style group and keep NOLA in my heart always. No matter where I go in the country, one reality always confronts me: nobody is a champion of local music like WWOZ.

Nowhere else is there a public supported music station that is completely music by the people and for the people. WWOZ is at the heart of New Orleans, and is so ingrained in the culture and music that to not support WWOZ is the same as not supporting NOLA and all her beautiful creatures.

Longevity to the greatest radio station to have ever graced the airwaves!

Oh, and check out my band: http://www.poboysbrassband.com and let me know what you think!

Best,

BiggEZ

I live in Laguna Beach CA and my Dad turned me on to WWOZ. And I never looked back.

On the computer at work, on my iPhone...which means I can listen to WWOZ in the car! Are you kidding? I love it.

Thank you for taking the time to share the beautiful culture of New Orleans with us. And thank you for taking such good care of the music and making our days that much better.

Solicitor General.