PUT NEW ORLEANS & MISSISSIPPI MUSICIANS BACK TO WORK RAISING MONEY
FOR FLOOD VICTIMS

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From: Thulani Davis [mailto:lanitoo@...]=20
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 2:13 PM
To: patricia jones
Subject: Fwd: Help for New Orleans Jazz Musicians=20


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From: chris chalfant <cchalfant@...>
Date: Sun Sep 4, 2005 12:04:34 PM America/New_York
To: music KL <cchalfant@...>
Subject: Help for New Orleans Jazz Musicians

September 3, 2005



Message from Wendy Oxenhorn Executive Director at the Jazz
Foundation of America

Two Organizations helping the musicians in New Orleans:

We are directing folks to the New Orleans Musicians Clinic (NOMC)
which has the names and addresses of so many musicians in New
Orleans, and are working now to find them and find temporary housing
for them in schools etc.

But let us remember...... it will be the Jazz Foundation who will be
called upon to provide money to the musicians for first month rents
and security deposits on new apartments and relocations. As well,
we're going to try to get instruments replaced.

Please let your contacts know if you think they can help, ask them
to emailme.

Please cut and paste the info below and pass it around:
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Two great organizations to donate to: New Orleans Musicians Clinic
(NOMC)

This is a fantastic hands on organization who has the names and
addresses so many great musicians because they have them all coming
to their FREE health clinic all these years and now, they are the
ones who are tracking the local musicians and finding them shelter.

They can be contacted at musiciank@...

They are the New Orleans Musicians Clinic and know the whereabouts of
the local musicians down there.

Contact: Kathy Richard directly at 337 989-0001

Send donations to:
NOMC Emergency Fund
funds will be distributed by:
SW LA Area Health Education Center Foundation, Inc.
103 Independence Blvd.
Lafayette, LA 70506
desk: 337-989-0001
fax: 337-989-1401
email: finance@...
http://www.swlahec.com/

The New Orleans Musicians Clinic is determined to keep Louisiana
Music Alive! It is our beacon to soothe our souls. We want to
relocate our New Orleans musicians into the Lafayette/ Acadiana
community where they can remain a life force! But most of them have
lost everything... we must help them rebuild their lives.

They can't access any of their NOMC accounts. They desperately need
money to fund these

efforts.

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Jazz Foundation of America:

We will be addressing the longer term needs of these jazz and blues
artists who will have just lost everything.

We will be raising funds and distributing money for the musicians to
get a new apartment or room for rent: by giving a first month's
rent, possibly more, for them to start over, a place to live. (This
is what we normally do on a daily basis for musicians across the
country who become sick and can't pay their rent, we also keep food
on the table and get employment to hundreds of elderly musicians
through our Jazz in the Schools program. Our operations normally
assist 35 musicians a week.)

As well, we will be attempting to help New Orleans musicians by
replacing the thing that matters most and the only way they can
ever work again: their instruments.

To those who lost their instruments, like drummers and bassists who
could not carry their heavy equipment, and guitarist with their
amps, we will be making an effort to work with manufacturers and
music stores to replace those instruments for as many as we possibly
can.

Remember, New Orleans was only "New Orleans" because of the
musicians...

Send donations to:

Jazz Foundation of America
322 West 48th Street 6th floor
NYC 10036

Director: Wendy Oxenhorn
Phone: 212-245-3999 Ext. 21

email contact: Joyce@...

website: www.jazzfoundation.org <http://www.jazzfoundation.org/>

To make an online CREDIT CARD DONATION OR PLEDGE: =20
go to: http://www.jazzfoundation.org/index2.html
and click bottom right corner of page where it says "instant pledge"

Thank you, from our hearts.