The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is in full swing over the next two weeks. We’ll have music from the year ‘round jazz fest that is the New Orleans club scene, bring you sounds from the Festival grounds, and talk with musical luminaries of the Crescent City, Irma Thomas and Allen Toussaint.

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is in full swing over the next two weeks. We’ll have music from the year ‘round jazz fest that is the New Orleans club scene, bring you sounds from the Festival grounds, and talk with musical luminaries of the Crescent City, Irma Thomas and Allen Toussaint.

Street beats from tap to rap, blues, boogie and soul, surf to jazz… as well as a chat with drummer D. J. Fontana, the man who kept time for Elvis Presley.

Easter/Passover show brings sacred music from a variety of traditions and we’ll talk with Mavis “I’ll take You There” Staples about her music and spirit. Plus savor the sensual side of Spring.

April showers here in New Orleans and the Gulf South with a flow of music about water, rivers, weather and…. matters of the heart. We’ll talk with trumpeter Nicholas Payton about his recent Grammy with his musical partner, the late Doc Cheatham.