End of Year Giving

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, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to WWOZ today. 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 us keep guarding the groove!

» Be a Guardian of the Groove

See WWOZ on YouTube!

WWOZ's YouTube Channel hit a couple of big milestones recently: 9 million views and more than 40,000 subscribers! We're out and about year round, recording and streaming video from festivals, the Jazz & Heritage Center, our studio, and other music venues around town. In addition to the main link below, check out live stream recordings, featured selections, and playlists.

» WWOZ on YouTube

Rewind: Professor Longhair/James Booker Tribute

If you missed yesterday's All-Star New Orleans Piano Tribute to Professor Longhair & James Booker, hear it again on our Two Week Archive. Or watch it on our YouTube Channel or Facebook. Eight of New Orleans finest piano players joined host Missy Bowen on the New Orleans Music Show for a three-hour of celebration of Fess, Booker, and the New Orleans piano tradition.

» Listen on our Two Week Archive.

Watch on our YouTube Channel or Facebook page.

Livewire Music Calendar for the Holidays

Let the Livewire Music Calendar help with your holiday entertainment needs. You can hear highlights of each day's calendar at the top of odd-numbered hours, and you can always access the entire Livewire Music Calendar by visiting wwoz.org/livewire. For example, among the shows this coming Saturday night (December 21): Louis Michot at the CAC, Rebirth at the House of Blues, Tuba Skinny at d.b.a., Flow Tribe at 100 Men Hall, Kermit at the Mother-In-Law Lounge, Jeremy Davenport at the Ritz-Carlton, Naydja Cojoe at the Dew Drop Inn, Betty Shirley at Dos Jefes, Smoking Time Jazz Band at the Maison, Big Freedia at Tips, and many, many, many more!

» Livewire Music Calendar

Twelfth Night & Carnival 2025

Carnival season gets rolling on January 6 with Monday evening Twelfth Night events, including walking parades in the French Quarter (Société Des Champs Elysées followed by Krewe de Jeanne d'Arc) and Saint Charles streetcar rides (Phunny Phorty Phellows and the Funky Uptown Krewe). Mardi Gras is March 4--so nearly two solid months of king cake season!

» Photos from Mardi Gras 2024

2025 Jazz & Heritage Spring Concert Series

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation's 2025 Spring Concert Series happens Friday and Saturday evenings from January 11 through February 1 at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center. This year's series honors both traditional and contemporary jazz. The lineup includes, among others, Mark Braud’s New Orleans Jazz Giants, Victor Campbell, Mikhala "Jazz Muffin" Iversen, Jason Marsalis, the Pfister Sisters, and Panorama Brass Band.

» 2025 Spring Concert Series"

Show Host Profile: Charles Burchell

Charles Burchell, aka Charlie B, host of the Friday edition of Jazz from Jax Brewery, 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."

» Full Charles Burchell profile by Melissa Milton

Recipe: Turkey Neck Gumbo

This month's recipe is a dark-roux gumbo with a couple of twists. It uses blackened-and-braised turkey necks (a recipe for which is included), and it includes poblanos rather than green bell peppers. It comes to us from Palm & Pine on N. Rampart near Bienville in the French Quarter.

» Recipe: Turkey Neck Gumbo