Longtime WWOZ show host Billy Delle has passed away at the age of 76. His family announced his cause of death as Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. He hosted Records From The Crypt on WWOZ, hours of "scratchy 45s," as he referred to them, of New Orleans R&B from the 1950s and 1... Read more

The Silver Swan Ragtime Interpreters joined host Sally Young in the studio this morning for a hopping Thursday morning! Check out their set below.  Read more

Improv Across The Arts, a Tricentennial Conference, will be taking place at venues across New Orleans starting Friday, November 30 and running through Sunday, December 1. This dynamic conference is bringing together internationally known performers, artists, and scholars in... Read more

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  Landry Walker's The Chosen Ones Brass Band joined us in the studio this afternoon for the November edition of School Groove! Check out their performance below. This is the group that won the 'Class Got Brass' competition last spring.   Read more

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Check out the new video from Michot's Melody Makers for 'La lune est croche,' off their debut album Blood Moon. Lots to come for this group that features members of Lost Bayou Ramblers, including an album release party at Saturn Bar on Saturday, November 24.  Read more

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Mahalia Jackson was born in New Orleans, and grew up singing in church, at the Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in the Black Pearl neighborhood uptown. As a teenager she left the city, but her remarkable voice will be forever woven into its music and history. Read more