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Announcing the NEW ORLEANS JAZZ ADVOCACY TASK FORCE

WHO WE ARE

A partnership of concerned New Orleans Jazz advocates created in conjunction with the New Orleans Musicians Assistance Foundation of the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic. The Task Force includes representatives of the New Orleans Musicians Hurricane Relief Fund, The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, and The New Orleans Jazz Centennial Celebration, among others.

MISSION STATEMENT

To perpetuate and strengthen America’s only indigenous art form, Jazz, in the city of its birth. To insure the financial viability of Jazz in New Orleans, for the musicians who create it and the businesses and institutions that present it. To preserve Jazz through an aggressive grassroots and media campaign to educate the local and national public on the significance of this vital American art form and to inspire responsibility for its well-being.

CORE VALUES

Strive to create awareness about the crisis on a national and local level.

Emphasize the concrete social context that nurtures Jazz; families, schools, churches, businesses and neighborhoods.

Seek to implement helpful solutions for both Jazz musicians and venues that employ them.

Partner with existing institutions to empower funding and awareness.

Seek to solidify a fellowship within the Jazz community of all Jazz venues and Jazz-interested institutions and to bring that collaboration together to actively participate towards the accomplishment of the community to see Jazz revered.

To galvanize that shared mission within the N.O. Jazz community such that Jazz musicians and the venues that employ them may enjoy true profitability and sustainability.

To broaden a grassroots movement to preserve Jazz in New Orleans, to insure the future of viability of musicians and venues.

New Orleans music is a world treasure.

The musicians of New Orleans have given us all so much over the years. The vast majority of them worry more about creating great music than about getting rich. In consequence, they’ve been particularly devastated by the storms and levee failures of 2005, the debacle of the federal response of 2006, and the ongoing misery all New Orleanians face. The hundreds of nightly gigs that kept everyone alive have gone away, and many of them have lost their instruments as well as their homes.

• Animated Flash Movie recreating the events caused by Hurricane Katrina

Now its our turn to help them.