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05/12/2024

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joyclark/joy-clarks-album-tell-it-to-the-wind
Help make it happen!

Help me make an album that I've been living my whole life!

05/06/2024

Joy Clark has earned every praise, now it’s time for us to pay her forward!

Hey!!! We just broke the 15k mark!!! We have 210 backers for My album Tell it to the Wind! I am so theilled and overwhelmed at the response to this campaign. Can we get more backers by the end of the day? Thank you for all of the shares. You are truly making this thing happen ✨

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joyclark/joy-clarks-album-tell-it-to-the-wind

02/11/2023

Tune in Saturday for an interview with Clint Pigg, Right around 11 am!

08/30/2022

Bandcamp First Friday!

Good morning! My new record "The Recent Future" is out now on Bandcamp, Apple Music, YT (not amazon yet-curious). I hope you have a chance to check it out. Physical CDs are at Louisiana Music Factory, Euclid Records and my website www.alexmcmurray.com. LPs will be available later in the year. Thanks!

https://alexmcmurray.bandcamp.com/

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/alex-mcmurray/141455691

08/26/2022

Tune in Saturday morning from 10-noon for some New Orleans Music! I'll be playing some stuff so hot it'll leave you panting!

http://www.wwoz.org/listen/archive/show.php?date=2022-08-27&time=10AM

08/20/2022

New Orleans Music on a Saturday? Um absolutely!
http://www.wwoz.org/listen/archive/show.php?date=2022-08-20&time=10AM

08/15/2022

Watch this! It’s pretty fun!

NOLA 311 (Public Works) actually tells residents on this corner that there's no money to fix this, and it's OK to get a slingshot or BB gun and fix the probl...

08/12/2022

So cool!

07/27/2022

A WWOZ video of Mardi Gras Indians is currently showing at the Venice Biennale, one of the most prestigious international art exhibits. The video, by WWOZ's Video Director Charlie Steiner, features many different Indians, including Big Chief Monk Boudreaux and the Golden Eagles, the 9th Ward Hunters, and the Young Maasai Hunters, as well as many Indians participating in Uptown Super Sunday earlier this year. WWOZ has long partnered with Mardi Gras Indians to help share their artwork and voices, and we're very proud our video has made the trip from New Orleans to Italy.

The video is part of a larger exhibit of Mardi Gras culture and artistry, displaying full suits and other beadwork by Big Chief Darryl Montana of the Yellow Pocahontas, Big Chief Howard Miller of the Creole Wild West, Big Chief Tyrone Casby of the Mohawk Hunters, Third Chief Ronnel Butler of the 9th Ward Black Hatchet tribe, and Spy Boy Lloyd Keeler of the Apache Hunters.

Can't travel to Venice to see the suits and the video? Click on the link to our website, where you can learn more and view the video, as well as directions on how to do a virtual tour of the exhibit in the famous Palazzo Mora -- where we're told the staff are now streaming WWOZ because of the video!

https://www.wwoz.org/blog/790641

06/18/2022

Tune in to the archive to hear an Icon discusses a Legend! Mr. Jesse McBride, distinguished musical scholar and educator. He’ll be giving insight focusing on one of his mentors Harold Battiste Jr. one of the major influencers of the musical culture of New Orleans. Listen to the show on the archives http://www.wwoz.org/listen/archive/show.php?date=2022-06-18&time=10AM Then check Jesse McBride at Snug on Sunday!

Join us on Sunday, June 19th to celebrate both and as we pay tribute to one of New Orleans' most influential and beloved founding fathers of American Music, and proprietor of the first African-American musician-owned record label, Jr.

Raised on LaSalle Street surrounded by the rhythms of the legendary Dew Drop Inn nearby, Harold Raymond Battiste Jr. (1931 - 2015) was a revered American musician, composer, arranger, performer, teacher, mentor and community leader from New Orleans. He is perhaps best known for his work as arranger for records by Sam Cooke, Joe Jones, Lee Dorsey, Dr. John, Ike & Tina Turner, and Sonny & Cher.

As a graduate of of Dillard University's music education program, Harold linked up with then-young Ellis Marsalis Jr. to form the American Jazz Quintet with Alvin Batiste, Ed Blackwell and Richard Payne. Then after many years spent working in the studio industry in Los Angeles, he returned to to in 1989 to join the faculty of the newly formed Jazz Studies department at helmed by Ellis.

During the last 25 years of his life, Harold Battiste Jr served on many arts and education organizational boards, won numerous awards, and mentored countless New Orleans musicians, many of whom you likely know today.

Read More at SnugJazz.com

One of Battiste's distinct mentees is pianist and educator , professor at Tulane University's Jazz Studies department and current bandleader for , a band started by Harold Battiste as an ongoing practice of bringing rising young musicians into the fold and often compared to Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.

Sunday, he presents the Jesse McBride Tribute to Harold Battiste Jr, featuring:

Jesse McBride - piano
Arnold Little III - guitar
Jason Stewart - bass
Thomas Glass - drums
Rex Gregory - saxophones
Andrew Baham - trumpet

Shows at 8pm & 10pm.
Doors at 7:00pm & 9:30pm.

Restaurant is Open 6pm - 10pm for dinner before or after your showtime:

Tickets at SnugJazz.com 🎫

Advance Ticket Holders can now also automatically make dinner table reservations in the Dining Room online via 🍽

05/25/2022

THIS SATURDAY 11AM -TIL...
A BENEFIT AND BLOOD DRIVE FOR JOE COOPER

We all love Joe and Leslie and the Cooper family. They're whats right in our City and we are all going to be here to support them during this difficult time.

We will have a Mobile Blood Donor Bus across from the Maple Leaf Blar 11am-6pm for those who wish to donate.

The show will kick off at high noon, we are still working on the schedule but as of now we will have Funk Monkey, 101 Runners, Russell Batiste and Friends, Papa Mali Trio, Erica Falls, CR Gruver, Jake Eckert, Leo Nocentelli, Brad Walker, Andre Bohren

100% of tickets sales go to Joe so get yours now at www.mapleleafbar.com

05/21/2022

Gee but it’s great to be back home!

Listen live online to WWOZ: volunteer-powered, listener-supported community radio in New Orleans.

05/17/2022

Back in the saddle with Trad tomorrow (sorta)! Tune in for some old school music from the new school cats!
9:00-11:00 https://www.wwoz.org/listen/player/

04/13/2022

If you’re on your way to French Quarter Fest stop by for some tunes. With , Jasen Weaver and some surprise guests!

04/02/2022

New Orleans music comin’ atcha!
https://www.wwoz.org/listen/player

03/25/2022

Lots of New Orleans music and culture this Saturday 10:00-noon. Tune in!

03/23/2022

Check out the Wednesday Trad show!

Listen live online to WWOZ: volunteer-powered, listener-supported community radio in New Orleans.

03/16/2022

Wednesday Trad fund drive!
This will be your last chance to pledge your support for Wednesday Trad with Michael for at least 6 months!
WWOZ appreciates all the support!
WWOZ.org/donate

Our volunteer-powered, listener-supported station celebrates the amazing music of New Orleans. Join WWOZ and become a Guardian of the Groove!

02/11/2022