Every day at Jazz Fest, there are a number of interviews held on the Allsion
Miner Stage in the Grandstand... One of today's featured Zydeco legend
Queen Ida and contemporary Zydeco star Terrance Simien.
Ida Lewis "Queen Ida" Guillory is a Louisiana accordionist and the f...
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Here are a few things of note happening today at Jazz Fest:
Cooking Demo at 3:30pm, in front of the Grandstand (east end): John Boutte
makes his Down in the Treme Carrot Ginger Soup, a recipe from That Sounds
Good!. Available in the Book Tent.
See your favorite tradition bea...
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! No Andy Williams, not
Christmas, Day 1 of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the
unchallenged greatest music and culture event on the planet.
My hot picks, dedicated to Callie –
Start out with the N. O. Suspects or Freddie ...
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Watch the Sync Up conference live - streaming in real-time video and audio
at WWOZ.org, starting at 10 a.m. CST every day of the conference.
The Sync Up Conference, put on by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation
and held during Jazz Fest at NOMA in City Park, is New ...
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What's going on at the Jazz & Heritage Stage and around the Fair Grounds.
11:15 - 12:00
Semolian Warriors Mardi Gras Indians
11:30 - 12:15
Brass Band Throwdown - [Kids Tent]
12:20 - 1:20
Young Pinstripe Brass Band
1:40 - 2:25
...
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Old Man River is back at it again!
Every Tuesday @ 6pm we will meet in Armstrong Park for the
"it's all about the MUSIC bike ride" which meets at Congo Square
So if MUSIC or CASUAL CYCLING or COOL PEOPLE is yo THANG then meet us at 6pm
at CONGO SQUARE in Armstrong Park
We will...
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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.
This year I was hoping that Heidi Victoria, a fa...
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We're two weeks from WWOZ's Piano Night at the House of Blues, a night which
celebrates the New Orleans piano tradition.
If you'd like to know more about that tradition, here are a couple of video
introductions. The first is a lecture/performance by Tom McDermott (who's
pla...
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