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Posted on 12/06/2005 12:53:57 PM PST by caryatid
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Singer 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Now that sounds like an interesting neighborhood. I could see this being a future historical district.
I like that idea! Can you imagine the jam sessions.
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Will it be taken over by rappers who immediately start shooting at each other? "Musician" doesn't mean what it used to.
Hope it's on higher ground than Fats Domino's old house.
Will be the best place to get your drug of choice in NO.
If the typical New Orleans musicians come back the influence will be real music not that rap crap passed off as music. We can only pray that this could light a creative fire in the music industry.
More than $2 million has been raised for the project dreamed up by Connick and Marsalis
Let me get this straight the money is to build them homes?
"Will it be taken over by rappers who immediately start shooting at each other? "Musician" doesn't mean what it used to."
Yes, yes...
You are aware, I hope, that not every young musician out there is a rapper? For pete's sake, can you not leave it alone for even a single thread? Here's a good story about a good project, and you must find some negative thing to say about it. Feh!
Let them learn in the school that Louie Armstrong and other New Orleans Jazz greats used used, the New Orleans Red light District.
The ultimate outcome remains to be determined. I suggest we wait to see if this idea comes to fruition and then worry about it.I saw this article as a potentially positive story coming out of a sea of negativity.
As my taste runs mostly to the divine music of the 17th Century in England, I am not in a position to judge what is, or is not "music" in today's world. LOL
I thought it was for the local muscians who lost homes their homes.
I thought I heard Connick on TV when Katrina happened he was worried about the "poor" people-why not a village for them?
Of course, that was not specified in the article ... funds like this often end up as the seed funds for a "foundation"/power base ....
"More than $2 million has been raised for the project dreamed up by Connick and Marsalis
Let me get this straight the money is to build them homes?"
Sure. And not one penny of government money will be used. Is that OK with you? If not, I'd like to know how it affects you in any way.
It might light a fire but sadly the stores won't carry it.
Good guys doing good things bump!
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