(him you know) announced plans for a Musicians' Village. Many New Orleans musicians, while widely acclaimed, have never been able to cash in, and so lots of them have been unable to return. The project is cosponsored with Habitat for Humanity.
http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl120605humanity.44c8b989.htmlSinger Harry Connick Jr. and saxophone player Branford Marsalis are working with Habitat for Humanity to create a "village" for New Orleans musicians who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina and its floods.
More than $2 million has been raised for the project dreamed up by Connick and Marsalis -- a neighborhood built around a music center where musicians can teach and perform, said Jim Pate, executive director of New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity....
Connick said four or five of the 16 musicians in his own band lost their homes. "There's a ton of musicians who have no place to go," he said....
Pate said the organization hasn't decided on a location and doesn't yet have money for the whole project, which would include a music center named for Ellis Marsalis, the jazz pianist and educator who is father of the musical family that includes Branford, Wynton, Delfeayo and Jason.Music is not only an important economic resource for New Orleans but is an integral part of the culture we -- some of us, anyway :grr: -- are struggling to preserve. Remember Mayor Nagin after an overflight disrupted one of his press conferences? "I'm tired of all this helicopter noise. I want to hear some jazz!"
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