On this week's show we welcome Dayna Kurtz to the city, in her new and arguably ancestral home, while we enjoy a full hour of music recorded live at Chickie Wah Wah on Canal Street featuring guitarist Robert Mache. We also meet up with Dayna over a bottle of red wine to tal... Read more

If you didn't get enough Zydeco at the last weekend's Lousiana Cajun & Zyedo festival in Armstrong Park, check out this video. Published last week by Storyville Records, it's a 1984 live recording at the Maple Leaf:"The Louisiana Two Step" by Rockin' Dopsie (1932 - 1993) an... Read more

A few months after Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans, Ruby Dee came to Congo Square to tell us motley returnees that she understood Congo Square was some of the most sacred ground in America.  She was also gracious enough to extend Congo Square to all of New Orleans. ... Read more

If you can't catch him this Saturday (6/14) at the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival in Armstrong Park, here's nearly 90 minutes of Buckwheat Zydeco filmed live at Turner Hall in Milwaukee on March 11,2012. The video was created in beautiful, full-screen-ready HD by MPTV (Milw... Read more

There's something just right about pairing the Kinks "Complicated Life", a cut from their 1971 Muswell Hillbillies album, with Preservation Hall Jazz Band singer Clint Maedgen's one-shot bicycle tour of the pre-Katrina Vieux Carré (including a cameo by the New Orleans Bingo... Read more

This Sunday, June 15 One World Family will host a benefit concert to fund scholarship programs which send dozens of Burmese refugee children to school in Thailand.  The lineup includes: Mike Dillon Band, Sarah Quintana, Andrew Duhon, Micah McKee & Little Maker, Blind Texas ... Read more

As the humorous intro- and outro- to this video make clear, Shamarr Allen is anything but a typical rock star. The "official video" for the first track on the 2011 Shamarr Allen and the Underdawgs CD entitled 504-799-8147, this is colorful, high-energy take on an infectious... Read more

Voice of the Wetlands founder Tab Benoit rips through an 8-minute-plus version of the title track from his 2011 album Medicine. It was filmed in Rockland, Maine at the North Atlantic Blues Festival in July 2012.   Read more