The 11th annual Bayou Boogaloo is coming May 20-22! This free 3-day family-friendly music and arts festival was started in 2005 and is held on the banks of Bayou St. John. It features live music, a huge variety of food vendors, an arts market, and athletics. There is a kids te... Read more

Here are a few of our favorite photos from the second weekend of Jazz Fest 2016! Check out even more in our full Flickr photostream. Read more

Here are a few of our favorite photos from Day 3 of Jazz Fest 2016! Check out even more in our full Flickr photostream. Read more

Here are a few of our favorite photos from Day 2 of Jazz Fest 2016! Check out even more in our full Flickr album here. Read more

Here are a few of our favorite photos from Day 1 of Jazz Fest 2016! For more, check out our Flickr albums here and here. Read more

At each Piano Night, WWOZ selects a special honoree, a keeper of the New Orleans piano tradition flame; someone who has been highly influential in New Orleans music and the New Orleans style. There are few more influential than our 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award honoree Al... Read more

It's always a good time for live music in New Orleans but the weekends of Jazz Fest and the days surrounding it are always especially ripe with amazing acts. Here are just a few of my personal picks for Jazz Fest after shows, day-by-day. For full listings, see our Livewire ... Read more

"Rollicking, playful, good time blues and intimate, reflective balladry..her songs ring with emotional depth." - Rolling Stone "A sensational, saucy singer and superb pianist... where Texas stomp-rock and Louisiana blues-swamp meet" - USA Today Grammy nominee Marcia Ball i... Read more

"...Henry Butler is arguably the greatest living proponent of the classic New Orleans piano tradition, playing an amalgam of boogie-woogie, jazz, blues and classical in the lineage of Professor Longhair, James Booker, Tuts Washington, Allen Toussaint and countless other emp... Read more

It's a picture perfect year for weather at French Quarter Fest! The crowds are out for the live, local music on 23 stages throughout the French Quarter and riverfront. Here's some photo highlights from this year's festival. If you can't make it there in person, we're broadc... Read more