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The New Orleans Saints will make their first appearance in a Super Bowl. They will be playing the Indianapolis Colts — a franchise that has been to three previous Super Bowls. To get to next month's big game in Miami, the Saints beat the Minnesota Vikings in overtime Sunday 31-28. The Colts won over the New York Jets 30-17…
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This week VOA visits New Orleans, Louisiana, to learn about the recovery efforts since Hurricane Katrina …
…and plays music from several of the city's many jazz bands.
Read more via voanews.com
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Walk into a New Orleans charter or public school, and you're likely to meet teachers from all over the country working in the classrooms. It's not like that in many school districts in the nation, where teachers often work not far from where they went to school themselves.
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December 30th, 2009 ~ American Routes has been on the air for over a decade and it's time to celebrate. Live from the House of Blues in New Orleans, Nick is joined on stage by Dr. Michael White and his Liberty Jazz Band, the young Cajun band Feufollet, and New Orleans jump blues legend Deacon John, along with several special guests.
Read more via americanroutes.publicradio.org
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This week on American Routes - All Saints |
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Tune into music dealing with death and rebirth, loss and resolution, for All Saints and All Souls Days, November 1 and 2. Music transcends the world of the living, as we listen to a jazz funeral for sax player Harold Dejan in the streets of New Orleans. Plus preacher, mortician, and amazing soul singer Solomon Burke tells his tale, and a visit to a local cemetery to see how the dead are honored this time of year. Includes music in the spirit from Pops Staples, King Oliver, Bob Dylan and Ralph Stanley. American Routes is a weekly two-hour public radio program produced in New Orleans, presenting a broad range of American music — blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and pop, avant-garde and classical. Now celebrating in our 10th year on the air, American Routes explores the shared musical and cultural threads in these American styles and genres of music — and how they are distinguished. |
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WWOZ iPhone App
WWOZ 90.7, a listener supported volunteer based community radio station sponsored by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage has released an iPhone app for its listeners. Other radio stations have streaming apps but usually within an umbrella of a larger group (e.g. iHeart Radio). But WWOZ looks like they want to have a little more control over their app with a branded background and simple controls...
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Reporting in Nature Geoscience, two coastal scientists write that rising sea levels, combined with slow Mississippi Delta growth, could drown the Louisiana coast by 2100. Delta expert Ivor van Heerden, who is not involved with the research, discusses the findings.
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Calling all creative ‘OZ fans! It’s time for a new WWOZ T-shirt design, and we want you to make it. We’re looking for something that represents what WWOZ is all about—something that combines the New Orleans vibe with the warm fuzzies of the ‘OZ family.
If your design is chosen, it will be printed as a limited edition T-shirt, available for purchase in the Swamp Shop. Your design can help support WWOZ!
The design deadline is August 1, 2009.
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Cajun singer-songwriter Zachary Richard has just released his first English-language album in 15 years, titled Last Kiss.
Born and bred in Louisiana, and best known for his French-language songwriting, Richard is Cajun through and through. After receiving a record deal with Elektra at 21, Richard purchased a Cajun accordion and never looked back. Since the early 1970s, he's been a key player in revitalizing his culture's traditional music, while flavoring his style with rock and New Orleans blues.
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American Routes, the nationally-syndicated public radio program dedicated to the exploration of music and the American experience, has joined with the House of Blues to showcase this year’s Ponderosa Stomp, on April 28 and 29, 2009.
The opportunity to be involved in documenting the Ponderosa Stomp, a two-day concert, conference and celebration of the unheralded artists and performers at the heart of American music, melds perfectly with the mission of American Routes, says Nick Spitzer, the popular program’s host and producer.
“The performers at the Ponderosa Stomp represent the great vernacular soul of American music,” says Spitzer. “They are the roots and routes of our popular music. In extending the voices on public radio nationwide, we hope listeners will feel the excitement of the live show here in New Orleans.”
Spitzer will be on hand throughout the festival to conduct interviews with many of the featured musicians, and to help archive and preserve the event. A selection of these interviews will be wrapped into an American Routes program for national broadcast during the July 4th holiday.
The Stomp, now in its eighth year, has grown into a major musical event in a city known for them. Some of the artists featured this year include Wanda Jackson, Otis Clay, James Burton, James “Blood” Ulmer and Robert Parker, among many more. The Ponderosa Stomp Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to celebrating the legacy, revitalizing the careers and preserving the history of the architects of American music.
Concertgoers interested in tickets and more information should visit the Ponderosa Stomp, or the House of Blues websites.
The public radio program American Routes is a weekly aural journey down the highways and byways of American music, produced in collaboration with Tulane University and co-produced and distributed by American Public Media to nearly a million listeners on 250 stations, nationwide.
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