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Hurray for the Riff Raff, Cole Williams, Louis Michot, Joy Clark, and Jon Batiste are just a few of the artists who appe...
12/31/2024

Hurray for the Riff Raff, Cole Williams, Louis Michot, Joy Clark, and Jon Batiste are just a few of the artists who appear multiple times on our Show Hosts' Favorite Recordings of 2024 lists! Check them out at wwoz.org/1140346-wwoz-hosts-favorite-recordings-2024.

Louis Armstrong received his first formal music training at the Colored Waifs Home for boys, a regrettably named juvenil...
12/31/2024

Louis Armstrong received his first formal music training at the Colored Waifs Home for boys, a regrettably named juvenile detention facility where a court sent him after he fired a pistol in the air on New Year’s Eve of 1912. From January 1913 to June 1914, under the instructor Peter Davis, he learned the cornet and bugle here. Learn more via A Closer Walk: Interactive New Orleans Music History Map at the link!

Louis Armstrong received his first formal music training at the Colored Waifs Home for boys, a regrettably named juvenile detention facility where a court sent him after he fired a pistol in the air on New Year’s Eve of 1912. From January 1913 to June 1914, under the instructor Peter Davis, he lea...

It's the perfect time for the gift of year-round music! Your donation to WWOZ allows us to bring you not only great radi...
12/31/2024

It's the perfect time for the gift of year-round music! Your donation to WWOZ allows us to bring you not only great radio, but award-winning live video streams from our new studios atop JAX Brewery. It also supports important projects like the two-week on-demand archive, Festing in Place, Takin it To the Streets, The LiveWire, A Closer Walk and Groovapedia and much more.

Whether it's Mardi Gras or Jazz Fest or hurricanes, WWOZ is still here with the sounds of New Orleans, 24/7. Help us keep Guarding the Groove by becoming a new member or making an additional gift at wwoz.org/donate.

Tune in to WWOZ as Neil Pellegrin closes out 2024 and welcomes the new year! In addition to his usual 7-10pm CT time slo...
12/30/2024

Tune in to WWOZ as Neil Pellegrin closes out 2024 and welcomes the new year! In addition to his usual 7-10pm CT time slot on New Year's Eve, he'll continue 10pm to midnight, ringing in 2025 with more from his fantastic '50s R&B collection, plus live recordings from Patsy Cline, Louis Prima (pictured), Elvis Presley, Ernest Tubb, Chuck Berry, Frank Sinatra, The Boogie Kings, Peggy Lee, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, and more, some of which were recorded on New Year's Eves gone by. Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians will lead the countdown to midnight here in the central time zone.

Happy New Year!!! 🎆 Listen locally at 90.7 FM or worldwide at wwoz.org. This show will also be available after-the-fact on our 2-week archive at wwoz.org/listen/archive.

📷 Louis Prima promotional photo courtesy of Hogan Jazz Archive Photography Collection, Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University Special Collections

WWOZ is fueled by listeners like you and powered by a community that cares.Please support the heartbeat of New Orleans m...
12/30/2024

WWOZ is fueled by listeners like you and powered by a community that cares.

Please support the heartbeat of New Orleans music with your gift WWOZ today. Together, we can ensure that the rhythms of our city continue to inspire and connect people everywhere, every day of the year.

If our station has been an important part of your life in 2024, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to WWOZ before THIS year ends at wwoz.org/donate.

Check out the Traditional and Contemporary Jazz Concert Series happening at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Ce...
12/28/2024

Check out the Traditional and Contemporary Jazz Concert Series happening at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center in January! Tickets for all nights are just $10 and available at events.jazzandheritage.org.

If you can't be there in person, WWOZ will be video streaming live from each night here on our page!

Dear Guardians of the Groove,I am incredibly proud to share with you WWOZ's brand new 2024 Report to the Community! Chec...
12/27/2024

Dear Guardians of the Groove,

I am incredibly proud to share with you WWOZ's brand new 2024 Report to the Community! Check it out at wwoz.org/sites/default/files/images/2024_local_service_content_report_to_the_community-26_dec.pdf.

I think you'll agree--this is a WOW!

Many thanks to our amazing staff, show hosts, volunteers, musicians, board and supporters. This is all possible because of you!

Please consider an end of year gift to WWOZ so we can continue to grow and expand our mission of being the worldwide voice, archive and flag-bearer of New Orleans music! wwoz.org/donate

Yours in the Groove,
Beth

Lady Rollers Second Line Parade starts at noon Sunday! Get the route sheet and hear our interview with Lady Rollers' Eli...
12/26/2024

Lady Rollers Second Line Parade starts at noon Sunday! Get the route sheet and hear our interview with Lady Rollers' Elizabeth Dunmas at WWOZ's Takin' It To The Streets at wwoz.org/streets! wwoz.org/streets

📷 Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee

Tune in for the sounds of the season at 90.7 FM locally or wwoz.org anywhere!
12/24/2024

Tune in for the sounds of the season at 90.7 FM locally or wwoz.org anywhere!

If WWOZ has been an important part of your life in 2024, please consider making a tax-deductible donation today at wwoz....
12/24/2024

If WWOZ has been an important part of your life in 2024, please consider making a tax-deductible donation today at wwoz.org!

Your support is crucial to our mission to preserve and share New Orleans music and culture with the world. Your donation allows us to bring you not only great radio, but award-winning live video streams from our beautiful new studios atop Jax Brewery. It also supports many of our important projects like the two-week on-demand archive, Festing in Place, Takin It To The Streets, Livewire, A Closer Walk: Interactive New Orleans Music History Map, Groovapedia, and much
more.

Thank you for your support! 💜

Check out WWOZ show hosts' favorite new releases in 2024! Let those in-the-know point you to the latest great tunes and ...
12/23/2024

Check out WWOZ show hosts' favorite new releases in 2024! Let those in-the-know point you to the latest great tunes and help you catch up on what you might have missed at wwoz.org/1140346-wwoz-hosts-favorite-recordings-2024.

This list will continue to be updated through the end of the year, so come back for more next week!

Jazz Fest posters hit Antiques Roadshow! Who else has a festival gold mine on their wall?
12/22/2024

Jazz Fest posters hit Antiques Roadshow! Who else has a festival gold mine on their wall?

Official Website: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/ | Get jazzed for an all-new ANTIQUES ROADSHOW with this sneak peek appraisal from ROADS...

Please keep a place for WWOZ on your holiday gift list! For 44 years and counting, your support has powered our mission ...
12/21/2024

Please keep a place for WWOZ on your holiday gift list! For 44 years and counting, your support has powered our mission to preserve New Orleans musical history and cultural heritage. With the 2024 tax season ending soon, consider making a tax-deductible donation to WWOZ today at wwoz.org/donate.

Your support allows us to bring you not only great radio, but live broadcasts & video streams, the two-week on-demand archive, the Livewire music calendar, Takin' It To The Streets, our annual Festing in Place broadcast, and all your other favorite WWOZ programming. Help WWOZ keep guarding the groove! 🎁

Women of Class Second Line Parade starts at 1pm Sunday, December 22! Get the route sheet and hear Indi the Doll's interv...
12/20/2024

Women of Class Second Line Parade starts at 1pm Sunday, December 22! Get the route sheet and hear Indi the Doll's interview with Women of Class's Antoinette White at Takin' It To The Streets! wwoz.org/streets

📷 Women of Class 2023 by MJ Mastrogiovanni

12/20/2024

Louis Michot performed his entire debut solo album, "R​ê​ve du Troubadour," at the Music Box Village on May 11, 2024, and WWOZ was there to capture this enchanting performance in its entirety. Michot was joined by musicians Bryan Webre, Jonny Campos, Evan Ceaser, Leyla McCalla, Corey Ledet, Sharde Thomas, and Chris Mallory. The show was delayed due to a New Orleans spring tradition - a termite swarm, and some remained by the time it started.

Michot will join DJ Swamp Boogie in the studio this afternoon around 3pm CT (Friday, Dec. 20) to talk about the album's one-year anniversary and concerts at the Contemporary Arts Center this weekend! Tickets are available at cacno.org/performing-arts-2/louis-michot-rêve-du-troubadour.

"R​ê​ve du Troubadour" blends novel sounds into a mix of new songs and ones dating back to the 1800s. Michot both memorializes and expands the lyricality of Louisiana French. The album is available as a digital download, CD, and vinyl at louismichot.bandcamp.com/album/r-ve-du-troubadour.

The NOCCA Foundation Celebrates 20th Anniversary of “Home for the Holidays” with a Star-Studded Lineup on Saturday! This...
12/20/2024

The NOCCA Foundation Celebrates 20th Anniversary of “Home for the Holidays” with a Star-Studded Lineup on Saturday! This year's benefit features performances from Irma Thomas, Rebirth Brass Band, Kermit Ruffins, John Boutte, DJ Raj Smoove, Flagboy Giz, and Emcee Gralen Banks. Details + tickets at NOCCAFoundation.org/holiday.

Charles Burchell, aka Charlie B, host of the Friday edition of Jazz from Jax Brewery (4-7pm CT), has, for many years, ma...
12/20/2024

Charles Burchell, aka Charlie B, host of the Friday edition of Jazz from Jax Brewery (4-7pm CT), has, for many years, managed two careers (or "two loves," as he calls them): one as a psychologist and the other in broadcasting. "It's just been two parallel universes, and I like the way that it is."

As for the current incarnation of his broadcasting universe--his WWOZ show--Charlie B invokes one of the essential elements of jazz: improvisation. "I go with the flow sometimes, I look out over the Mississippi River and that's inspiration, sometimes it's a change in the weather, sometimes it's the season, and the music will just flow. You get to hear me in the music."

Learn more: wwoz.org/blog/1140521

📷 Charlie B by Bill Sasser

New Orleans officials are launching a series of free sessions starting in January meant to teach local musicians how to ...
12/19/2024

New Orleans officials are launching a series of free sessions starting in January meant to teach local musicians how to manage their business affairs, one of the first moves to follow a city study that found most local musicians are underpaid. The sessions are free but attendees must register to participate. Those interested can register for the first three sessions and find information on future sessions at nolamusiccensus.org/sessions.

Welcome to Music Census Sessions, a free resource for New Orleans music professionals. Designed for folks with all levels of experience, these in-person and virtual workshops, roundtables, and networking events will give you practical tools to build, grow, and sustain your music career. Born out of....

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