For one hour every week, New Orleans Calling listeners tune in for the authentic sounds of New Orleans’ life and culture, textured with the voices, music, stories, and people of the Crescent City. Much like any day spent rambling through New Orleans, in this hour listeners can count on coming across fabulous music, fascinating characters, and stumbling into all sorts of unexpected New Orleans mome
nts. New Orleans Calling is not an academic lecture on musicology – it’s the stories and voices of real people, expressing a living culture unique to New Orleans. This show is for people who miss New Orleans because they’re somewhere else, whether or not they knew what they’re missing. This show is for the people who visit New Orleans five times a year, and these weekly doses of New Orleans delivered right to their homes will fuel their NOLA-loving fire. New Orleans Calling is for the hundreds of thousands of people who previously had no idea that the Crescent City would have a hook in them. This program wakes up that New Orleans’ sense of spontaneity and joy inside people. Using interviews and stories, with immersive audio production, and a special segment of exclusive live music recorded for broadcast by WWOZ, we are bringing the listener to New Orleans. New Orleans Calling offers an audio experience that sounds as authentic and right to a listener in the Crescent City as much as to someone halfway around the world. WWOZ first started streaming online in 1995, solidifying the station as a lifeline to New Orleans for the thousands of listeners who love the city and our music, but for whatever reason are not – or cannot – be here. Over half of WWOZ’s membership support comes from listeners outside the state of Louisiana. This giving is a testament to the role that WWOZ plays in people’s lives. New Orleans Calling now serves as an extension of WWOZ and New Orleans to even greater audiences around the country and world.
