Tonight, Blue Nile hosts “Dear NOLA: A Concert for New Orleans” (more on the Dear NOLA show here), a benefit hosted by national music organizations Air Traffic Control and the Future of Music Coalition. The lineup includes Vernon Reid, along with DJ Spooky/That Subliminal Kid, Grammy-nominated Helen Bruner + Terry Jones, Jenny Toomey and Kristin [...]
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Dear NOLA: A Concert for New Orleans
February 16, 2011 – 9:21 pm
Air-Traffic Control and the Future of Music Coalition are institutions that exist to help musicians to play a part in social justice, having assembled a web of people and resources that allow them to more cohesively and effectively collaborate with each other and with other social institutions. Since 2006, the two organizations have been teaming [...]
“Dear New Orleans” on Sale for the Holidays
December 21, 2010 – 12:28 pm
Earlier this year, Air Traffic Control released Dear New Orleans, a download-only benefit album for Sweet Home New Orleans featuring Steve Earle, My Morning Jacket, Bonnie “Prince Billy,” Wayne Kramer, Tom Morello, Mike Mills, Nicole Adkins and many more. With the Christmas season upon us, ATC has specially priced the album and offered additional packages [...]
The Dear New Orleans Video Album
September 15, 2010 – 8:43 am
For the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Air Traffic Control released the digital benefit album, Dear New Orleans, with proceeds going to Sweet Home New Orleans. The album includes songs by artists ATC brought to New Orleans after the storm to participate in activism workshops including Steve Earle, Wayne Kramer, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James [...]
How Can You Explain New Orleans?
September 1, 2010 – 3:42 pm
Have had a few people talk to me about my blog last week, about the Colorado gentleman who experienced some “effects” from Hurricane Katrina—the humidity went up. Of course we agree this insensitive soul should have kept his mouth shut. A New Orleans-born friend who lives in the western U.S. said that a gentleman attending [...]
Sweet Home New Orleans
September 1, 2010 – 12:22 am
Non-profit organizations did as much as anyone to help the New Orleans music community recover. Sweet Home New Orleans (SHNO) formed in 2006, and it was the culmination of that effort, a needs-based organization that coordinated the resources of a number of non-profits to help get the city’s musicians and culture bearers—Mardi Gras Indians and [...]
Struggling to Make Ends Meet is the New Norm
August 27, 2010 – 10:18 am
In his last act as executive director of Sweet Home New Orleans, Jordan Hirsch declared, “This is a crisis.” Hirsch is stepping down from leadership of the non-profit agency and will be replaced by Gabriela Hernandez, and Thursday afternoon at Galvez Restaurant in the French Quarter, he presented the results of Sweet Home New Orleans’ [...]
Dear New Orleans: A Musical Thank You Note
August 23, 2010 – 2:15 pm
“I have a very low tolerance for hippie bullshit,” says Tim Quirk. “There’s nothing more blind than a do-gooder that is just doing it for their ego or to relieve some kind of guilt. It’s rare to see someone who is just doing good work because they are completely passionate about a cause or set [...]
Hurricane Katrina 5 Years Later: Where Are We Now?
August 1, 2010 – 12:10 am
Perhaps it doesn’t seem like five years since we were all running from a hurricane roughly the size of the entire Gulf of Mexico. For some, it seems like even more time. Much less for others. Just the first six dreamlike months after the flood—when you could leave your bike outside, unlocked for days—felt like [...]
Horn Adjustments
June 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
Dubbed the Horn Doctor, Mike Corrigan is a master repairman and craftsman of brass instruments who owns B.A.C. Horn Doctor, a repair shop and horn manufacturer in Olathe, Kansas. In addition to his shop, he also owns a mobile instrument repair truck that he uses to follow high school and college marching bands to fix [...]
