New Orleans – New Orleans guitarist and composer Steve Masakowski and his colleagues in Astral Project have set a very high standard for modern jazz in the Crescent City for over 30 years. Masakowski's latest project is a quintet - Nova NOLA - that includes his daughter Sasha - and son Martin...
To find out more about Nova NOLA - please click here .
New Orleans, LA – New Orleans born actor Wendell Pierce talks with WWNO's Paul Maassen about the HBO series "Treme", growing up in New Orleans, and his involvement with the free LPO outdoor concert in Ponchartrain Park this Saturday.
People around south Louisiana know better than most how the feeling of a special place can endure even after it's been wiped from the map. Sometimes it's just the recollection of happy times or meaningful occasions spent there, like at family homes now plowed under or churches or schools disappeared from a city's landscape. And sometimes a bit more remains, something tangible like a memento from a landmark destination now vanished.
New Orleans, LA – From the HBO series Treme, actor Wendell Pierce talks to WWNO about the show and growing up in NOLA, The Zurich PGA Golf Classic in New Orleans, and author Tom Sancton - "Song of my Fathers"
New Orleans, LA – From the HBO series Treme, actor Wendell Pierce talks to WWNO about the show and growing up in NOLA, The Zurich PGA Golf Classic in New Orleans, and author Tom Sancton - "Song of my Fathers"
New Orleans – Old Crow Medicine Show fiddler and singer Ketch Secor lived in New Orleans for three years as a youngster - and absorbed a lot of Crescent City influences in those years. OCMS is a big draw at top festivals - and they're regularly featured on A Prairie Home Companion - but they still love to make music in the streets when they can...
To find out more about Ketch Secor and Old Crow Medicine Show - please click here .
New Orleans, LA – From the HBO series Treme, actor Wendell Pierce talks to WWNO about the show and growing up in NOLA, The Zurich PGA Golf Classic in New Orleans, and author Tom Sancton - "Song of my Fathers"
New Orleans – Today - on "The Sound of Books" - conversation with New Orleans writer, educator and clarinetist Tom Sancton - whose classic coming-of-age-in-New Orleans memoir "Song For My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and White" is now in print in paperback - in an expanded and updated edition.
