The Jazz Foundation of America was just named the Coordinator for the New Orleans Musicians Clinic as well as other groups in the Gulf Area who are helping the musicians in New Orleans.
List of Musicians who have been located: http://www.wwoz.org/#music
Please donate to the Jazz Foundation:
9/12/05
Update from the Director:
Hello Good People:
I am going down to Lafayette, Baton Rouge and a few other places where musicians are stuck without anything. The latest report I have gotten is that there are 150 musicians in Lafayette alone. My wonderful sister organizations, including the New Orleans Musicians Clinic (N.O.M.C.) have reported there are so many musicians without instruments, many need sax and trumpets, and drums seem to be in the majority of their requests.
We have started a drive so please:
Send instrument donation responses to: eleanor@jazzfoundation.org
For $$ donations to N.O.M.C. in Lafayette: http://wwoz.org/clinic/
The New Orleans Musicians Clinic in exile now and trying to raise funds to rebuild. They are being housed temporarily in Lafayette with a medical facility already in place but need to rebuild the clinic.
The Jazz Foundation is funding the N.O.M.C. for a gig idea Bethany had to pay the musicians stuck down there, to play for their fellow shelter-mates.
The JFA will be funding 1,000 gigs for them in Lafayette to play for the shelters, which will provide decent work for 100 musicians.
Some of the musicians I have heard from are much older and dealing with unbelievable situations where there are 9 people in a hotel room, children included, the food stamps are slow to come and they have no cooking facility in the room so they are eating out of cans and they are even grateful for that because before the foodstamps arrived, there was nothing.
We have also learned that there are musicians who don't want to leave the shelters and settle somewhere for fear of never finding family members who they have been separated from.
Now, more than ever we will be needed to:
* create employment opportunities (as we did after 9/11 with our Jazz in the Schools program in NYC which employed over 400 musicians a year)
* rebuild lives
* to house them (E*TRADE Financial Group just gave $100,000 to go directly to a first month's rent for our New Orleans & Delta displaced musicians)
* put food on their tables
* keep them from eviction and homelessness
* pay phone bills and keep the electricity turned on
* offer pro bono legal services as well as our pro bono network of physicians and specialists
We are also currently working on a national project that would employ hundreds of New Orleans area musicians while bringing New Orleans to the World.
As mentioned above, through the New Orleans Musicians Clinic (N.O.M.C.) we will be employing musicians to play at nearby shelters to lift spirits, repair and replace instruments, repair their souls by taking the time to have long talks on the phone, seven nights a week, and keeping spirits up when it seems that all is lost
The Jazz Foundation of America, in a very personal way, has changed and saved hundreds of lives and homes over the years.
With 35 musicians a week coming to us BEFORE the hurricane, we need to ask everyone to remember, that especially now, we cannot drop our elderly clients in crisis around the country who are also going hungry, or about to be evicted, and at the same time, we must be there for our suffering musicians in the South, so we truly need you now more than ever.
When I return I will have the names of other organizations who will need our help. In the mean time, bless you for helping us and helping them.
Other Organizations helping the musicians:
NOAHLEANS is a group that is gathering the New Orleans musicians and making them available for gigs. This organzation is in Texas and can found at: http://www.tiannahall.com/SHONOF.html
Musicians can go to Musicares as well for assistance:
http://www.grammy.com/musicares/
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09-10-05, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA [Sat]
I: Monkey Meet > Falling Through The Bottom Line, Creepin' Vine > Hold Back The Flood > River Run, Go Back > Texas Chainsaw Massacre [tease], Look-Ka Py Py > Fortune Teller > Look-Ka Py Py, Waiting For The Rain* > Jump Into The Fire*, Little Red Rooster**, The Race Is On**, Deal**
II: Down in the Flood, You Can't Do That > Seven Devils > Diamond Joe > Do Re Mi > Diamond Joe, Parchman Farm, What Would I Do, Everybody Ought To Treat A Stranger Right > Over Under Sideways Down [tease] > Everybody Ought To Treat A Stranger Right
E: Nightmare On The Misery Train > Take Your Dead Ass Home
* w/Bob Weir on guitar
** w/Bob Weir on guitar and vocals
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