Published on:
December 1st, 2019
As we celebrate our 39th birthday on the airwaves Wednesday, December 4, we're celebrating online with a look back at some of the people, programs, and events that have gotten us where we are today. Check out some of these historic images below, and be sure to tune in 9a-7p to hear stories about WWOZ's past, listen to old, rare performances recorded or broadcast live by WWOZ, hear interviews with longtime members of the WWOZ community, and much more.
Help keep WWOZ going for 39 more years by becoming a member today. Community radio is more important now than ever!
WWOZ Historic Photos
WWOZ Fundraiser at Jimmy's December 1979
WWOZ 1981
WWOZ 1983 team
WWOZ 1983 team key
Duke BB and Gene at Tipitina's
Dan Meyer at the Treehouse ca. 1990. Photo by Infrogmation
WWOZ 1982 brochure
1998 Pledge Drive at the WWOZ Treehouse, photo by AL Kennedy
John Sinclair and Billy Delle broadcasting live from Jazz Fest
Dr John in the WWOZ Treehouse 1998 photo by Al Kennedy
James Singleton on the air in the 1990s
WWOZ newsletter - March 1988
March 1987 - tower from the barge crash wvog4
Ernie K-Doe on air at WWOZ in the 1980s
WWOZ logo with musicians
WWOZ microphone starburst logo
It's always time to listen to WWOZ!
WWOZ purple logo
Older WWOZ shirt ca. 2000s
WWOZ Guardians of the Groove fans
It's always time to listen to WWOZ!
wwoz.org 1996
wwoz.org 1998
wwoz.org 1999
wwoz.org 2004
wwoz.org September 2005
wwoz.org 2006
wwoz.org, December 2008
wwoz.org 2012
Samirah Evans and T.R. Johnson. Photo courtesy of Evans.
Bob French & Samirah Evans at WWOZ's Jazz Fest broadcast. Photo courtesy of Samirah Evans.
Mark Hawkins, Sondra Bibb, and Samirah Evans at Jazz Fest Live Broadcast. Photo courtesy of Samirah Evans.
Vocalists in front of the WWOZ truck. Photo courtesy of Samirah Evans.
Catfish and Samirah Evans at Jazz Fest 2006. Photo courtesy of Samirah Evans.
Patty Austin & Samirah Evans. Photo courtesy of Samirah Evans.
Samirah Evans, Ice Cube Slim, and Irma Thomas at the Lions Den. Photo courtesy of Samirah Evans.
Ice Cube Slim, Samirah Evans, and Ed Bradley in the WWOZ Jazz Tent at Jazz Fest. Photo courtesy of Samirah Evans.
Samirah Evans and Little Milton. Photo courtesy of Evans.
