Information about the Jazz Foundation of American
Sep 22 2005 - What our friends at The Jazz Foundation are doing
Yesterday, we were able to get ten musicians and their children in new homes, we received 75 requests today for housing and instruments from musicians scattered across the country who are starting to find out about us and spread the word. We will be able to help them set up in new homes thanks to our E*TRADE Financial Housing Emergency Fund.
But we all must keep the long term goal in mind: low income housing, instruments replaced, health and employment.
The Jazz Foundation of America is acting as an umbrella and we will be giving employment and direct housing assistance to those in need of housing as more and more are calling in each day. After Wendy Oxenhorn made her trip to the Lafayette Louisiana area and met with the displaced musicians who settled there, the Jazz Foundation is funding 150 gigs so musicians can play in local schools and shelters in the area, working thru the fabulous New Orleans Musicians Clinic who will dole the gig money to the local musicians.
We can employ so many more with your donations
We got a donation of new top shelf brass instruments (worth approx. $70,000) to some of the greatest jazz artists down here. Incl. members of the Treme Brass Band, the Rebirth Brass Band, and the Hot 8. If you have an instrument you wish to donate, or if you are a Katrina effected musician and need an instrument, you can email us at Joe@jazzfoundation.org
A worldwide law firm who specializes in intellectual property, will be donating their time to help the Katrina Victim Musicians through the Jazz Foundation.
Let us not forget the 35 musicians a week in crisis who we were serving nationwide before this disaster.
www.jazzfoundation.org
212-245-3999 Ext. 21
