2026 Brass Pass: Get Yours Before They're Gone

Be there for Jazz Fest 2026--and support WWOZ at the same time--by getting a Brass Pass, your ticket to ALL eight days of the festival. The Brass Pass allows unlimited access to the WWOZ Hospitality Tent, a source of fresh fruit, iced coffee, seating, WiFi, and restrooms. WWOZ Brass Passes are fully transferable: a different person can use the pass each day! Your Brass Pass also allows same day re-entry for every day. And a WWOZ Brass Pass comes with a full year’s membership to WWOZ. We've sold most of our allotment of WWOZ Brass Passes for Jazz Fest 2026, so get yours before they're gone!

» Get a Brass Pass for Jazz Fest 2026

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See the Piano Night 2026 Live Video Stream

WWOZ Piano Night is a sellout (save for sponsorships), but you can still get a virtual front-row seat by purchasing our live video stream! WWOZ Piano Night is our flagship fundraiser and a festival season tradition among New Orleans music lovers! This year, 25 piano players (see the full lineup here) will perform at the House of Blues on Monday, April 27, carrying the flame of the New Orleans piano tradition. Piano Night has two simple goals: honor and celebrate New Orleans piano traditions and raise funds to benefit WWOZ. Patrons are invited to join us for more than five hours of piano in a range of styles from boogie-woogie to trad jazz, modern jazz to R&B, stride to gospel, and much more. Questions? Email pianonight@wwoz.org

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WWOZ Wins Three Press Club of New Orleans Awards

Here's something we’re proud to share: WWOZ took home three top honors at the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters' Prestige Awards in Baton Rouge last month, recognizing the best in Louisiana broadcasting for: Best Live Onsite/Remote - Live at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival; Best Interview – Irma’s Story: The Soul Queen of New Orleans; and Uniquely Louisiana – Takin’ It To The Streets. Congratulations and thanks to our staff, show hosts, volunteers, supporters, board and, of course, the wonderful musicians of New Orleans and Louisiana!

» WWOZ Wins Three Press Club of New Orleans Awards

Our 2026 Jazz Fest Broadcast

For three years in a row, our Jazz Fest live broadcast has won a Prestige Award from the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters for Best Live On-Site Remote Broadcast (see above!). You can hear us from this year's New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, starting on April 23 and running through May 3. If you’re not able to make it this year, or if you can't be there every day, we'll be broadcasting live sets from the WWOZ Jazz Tent, the Blues Tent, Economy Hall, Jazz & Heritage Stage, and the Gospel Tent. Once the broadcast schedule is finalized, we'll post all the info on wwoz.org.

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Our 2026 French Quarter Fest Broadcast

WWOZ will be broadcasting sets from this year's French Quarter Fest 2026, which happens April 16-19. We'll be covering the festival this Thursday from 2pm-8pm, and then Friday through Sunday from 11am-8pm CT! Check out the full details on this year's festival at frenchquarterfest.org. Our broadcast will be anchored by some of your favorite WWOZ show hosts. Listen locally at 90.7 FM or worldwide at wwoz.org!

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Johnny Jackson Jr. Gospel Is Alive! Celebration

The Johnny Jackson Jr. Gospel Is Alive! Celebration is the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival’s annual educational workshop. It's a free community outreach program and serves as an educational platform that engages senior citizens through gospel music. The 2026 lineup includes Shirley Caesar and the Caesar Singers, Arthur and Friends Community Choir, and the Council on Aging Community Choir. Admission is free and open to the public! Norman Robinson returns as this year’s Master of Ceremonies.

» Johnny Jackson Jr. Gospel Is Alive! Celebration

Jazz Fest Food Recipes

Here's a dozen or so Jazz Fest Food recipes, in case you're interested in cooking at home while listening to our Jazz Fest broadcast. We have 6 classic Jazz Fest recipes from the first (1984) edition of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Cookbook by Lorraine Landry and Lee Barnes. And we have more recipes that are close approximations of Jazz Fest favorites.

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