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🎶Happy 2nd weekend of Jazz Festing in Place! Make sure to tune in to the lineup! 🎶

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Happy second Friday of Jazz Festing In Place! Listen live ONLY at https://www.wwoz.org/listen/player/, 90.7 FM, our app, or via TuneIn.

Tune in today, 11am-7pm (CDT), to hear historic Jazz Fest sets from Glen David Andrews, Dr. Michael White, Samantha Fish, Roy Hargrove, Big Freedia, Aaron Neville, Little Freddie King, Paul Sanchez's Rolling Road Show, John Mooney, Wynton Marsalis, Papa Grows Funk, Blind Boys of Alabama, and more, plus a few surprises! You can always find our most up-to-date cubes at https://www.wwoz.org/640011-jazz-festing-place-cubes.

Today's broadcast will culminate in a special rare airing of the 1974 Fire Benefit for Professor Longhair, an event that featured Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, the Meters, Earl King, Ernie K-Doe, Snooks Eaglin, the Wild Magnolias, Tommy Ridgley, Benny Spellman, Earl Turbinton, Willie Tee & the Gaturs, and Fess, himself.

Eighteen days before the opening of the 1974 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, a fire destroyed rhythm & blues piano legend Professor Longhair’s home, resulting in the need for this benefit show. The subsequent recording is one of the crown jewels in the Archive of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation.

Get the full at-home festival experience while you're listening by checking out our "Festing In Place" homepage: https://www.wwoz.org/topics/festing-place. Broadcast schedule is subject to change.

Special thanks to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, and the Archive of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation.

Also thanks to our sponsors who have made this broadcast possible: Uniti Fiber, Entergy Corporation, Goldring Family Foundation, Blue Plate Mayonnaise, Luzianne Iced Tea, French Market Coffee, Fertel Foundation, Tabasco, Major Services, Courtney & Michael Katzenstein, CMC Drywall, Atmos Energy, Gia Maione Prima Foundation, Copeland's of New Orleans, Miller Lite, Camellia Beans, JAMNOLA, and Jones Walker LLP.

Additional support provided by our Drum Roll sponsors: Bob and Kathleen Edmundson, Judge Sidney Cates, Cindy Williams, The Krewe of Red Beans, Ellie and Bruce Wainer, Geoff Isles, Gary Boigan and Michele Spano, Elizabeth Sarnoff, Sarah Martin and Tom Lewis, Jennifer and Ron Berkowitz, The Krewe of SLAMM, The Big Easy in Buffalo, Randy Smith of Smith & Fawer Attorneys, Ben, Andrea, and Rocco Franz, The LSU Press presenting the Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians, Latrobe's on Royal, Helena Moreno, Council at Large, and Jason Williams, Council at Large.

Photo: Professor Longhair at the second Jazz Fest in 1971 by John Messina, courtesy of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Archive. ... See more

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OPENING ALERT: The Commissary opens to the public, launching family-style to-go meals and DIY meal kits for home cooking. ... See more

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What's new about the Stay at Home order that begins today?

🍽️ Restaurants can have outdoor seating with no table-side service
😷 All employees of any business who deal with the public must wear masks
🚗 Shopping malls can open for curbside retail

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