Calas are a kind of creole rice fritter (or, according to an old French recipe, beignets de riz) typically containing cooked rice, yeast, sugar, eggs, and flour; the savory version here, courtesy of Louisiana Cookin' magazine, omits the sugar, adds crabmeat, and leavens with b... Read more

For your weekend viewing pleasure, here's a hot-off-the-presses, live-in-the studio performance by Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns at KEXP in Seattle, recorded on May 29 and published yesterday. It's about 26 minutes long, and includes four songs: "Catch 'em Young", ... Read more

Welcome to the first episode of WWOZ's new nationally syndicated program, NEW ORLEANS CALLING! We have lots in store for you in the weeks and months ahead! We start off this week by checking out the New Orleans piano tradition. Read more

Prince, who's headlining the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans this weekend, possesses many musical gifts, perhaps none greater than as a rock-star-style guitarist. Rolling Stone rated him 33rd of the 100 greatest ever while citing the performance in the video below as ... Read more

Clarence "Frogman" Henry, a 2007 Louisiana Music Hall of Fame inductee and a New Orleans legend, delivers an epic eight-plus minute of his 1956 debut single, "Ain't Got No Home" at the LMHOF Legends Live show.   Read more

Check out New Orleanian Alois Maxwell "Al" Hirt (1922-1999), playing his horn during a December 16, 1970 episode of Johnny Cash's musical variety show. The pace here is brisk: Hirt does 3 songs in 4min, 21sec. First, there's a quick "I Walk the Line" with Cash, followed by ... Read more

Banu Gibson & the New Orleans Hot Jazz Orchestra with a 1986 cover of Jellyroll Morton's "Milenberg Joys". The occasion was the Saint Louis National Ragtime and Classic Jazz Festival from the Goldenrod Showboat; KETC Channel 9 in Saint Louis shot the video.   Read more

WWOZ is hosting six college interns this summer. These highly motivated young people are: Ishan Allen, James Bullard, Olivia Broslawsky, Benjamin Russell, Candace Crawford, and Lily Wasserman. The interns are acquiring hands-on experience in various aspects of radio, and thei... Read more