LINKS: Aid for Musicians and Charitable Giving, Business Centers for Musicians, Child Care, Other Helpful sites
Aid for Musicians and Charitable Giving (National and Community)
The Jazz Foundation of America, just named coordinator for the New Orleans Musicians Clinic is working hard to raise funds to help the musician's relief effort. They are a potential source for financial assistance, including rent support, instrument replacement, and employment. INFO: Jazz Foundation of America, 3rd Floor, 322 W 48th St., New York, NY 10036 or 212/245-3999 or jazzfoundation@rcn.com or www.jazzfoundation.org
American Federation for Musicians NOLA Local 174-496 is now accepting donations to assist our member musicians in this time of need. Donations will be placed in the Local's Altruist Fund which is strictly dedicated to providing assistance to local members who are injured, ill or displaced. Checks or money orders should be made to AFM Local 174-496. Please designate that payment is for hurricane relief. Visit: www.neworleansmusicians.org. Their temporary address and phone are: AFM Local 174-496 , 2305 Robley Drive, Lafayette, LA 70503, (337) 991-9088
MusiCares offers an Emergency Financial Assistance Program providing financial grants for music people in crisis. MusiCares can help with medical expenses, hospitalization, treatment for substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, other life threatening illnesses and basic daily needs such as shelter and utilities. INFO: MusiCares Foundation, 3402 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or 800/687-4227 or musicares@grammy.com or www.grammy.com
Tipitina's Foundation has dedicated itself to finding musicians housing, gigs and instruments while raising funds through donations and nationwide benefit concerts to meet the challenges facing us in the coming weeks and months. They are currently working with The Leaf, a club in Black Mountain, NC.
Contact Bill Taylor,
Director, Tipitina's Foundation
Phone: (828) 686-8742
email: tipitinashelp@theLEAF.com
web: www.tipitinas.com or www.theleaf.com
New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund is offering immediate assistance to displaced musicians with as little red tape as possible. They offer full accountability of where contributions are sent. Visit: www.nomrf.org/index.html
Need and instrument? Katrinas Piano Fund is an organization solely devoted to replenishing musical equipment and instruments. Definitely, visit this site: www.katrinaspianofund.org/
Music Maker Relief Foundation has begun this fund as a heartfelt response to aid the New Orleans musicians. Grants will be made for basic living expenses such as gasoline, food, rent, clothing and instrument replacement. This is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the true pioneers and forgotten heroes of Southern musical traditions gain recognition and meet their day to day needs. As per the site, you must be 55 years or older, rooted in the South and have an income of less than $18,000. Contributions go directly musicians.
Eno Valley Station
PO Box 72222
Durham, NC 27722-2222
919-643-2456
919-643-2597 (fax) www.musicmaker.org/
info@musicmaker.org
New Orleans and Houston (NOAH) is a group of Musicians helping Musicians find housing and work in Texas. Most musicians in the stricken area left their homes in the wake of Hurricane Katrina with little or nothing. Finding work as a musician is never easy, but in a new community it can take months or years to become established enough to earn a living. We are about finding immediate work for these musicians and helping them become a part of our community. For more info visit: www.noahleans.com/
Society of Singers (SOS) has established a special emergency fund to help hurricane victims who are members of the vocal arts community. They are raising funds to help with food, prescriptions and paper goods via store-bought gift cards, shelter, and other basic items. INFO: Society of Singers, 6500 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 640, Los Angeles, CA 90048 or 866/767-7671 or help@singers.org or www.singers.org
Louisiana Division of Arts is working directly with the Louisiana Partnership for the Arts and the Arts Council of New Orleans to assess the direct and indirect impact of Hurricane Katrina within our arts communities. Furthermore, they're developing a framework to cohesively address relief and recovery for artists and arts organizations throughout Louisiana state and across the nation. Visit them: www.crt.state.la.us/arts/
Musicians Foundation, Inc. provides financial assistance to musicians facing financial emergencies. INFO: Musicians Foundation, Inc. 875 Sixth Ave., Suite 2303, New York, NY 10001 or 212/239-9137 or info@musiciansfoundation.org or www.musiciansfoundation.org
Nolagigs.org offers music and general employment opportunities for displaced musicians. Visit: www.nolagigs.org
Business Centers: Internet, Faxes, Phone lines for displaced Musicians of Katrina
In addition to visiting local schools, libraries, community centers, and churches, here are a few places to contact for business center help and to provide help:
Tipitina's Music Co-Op Business Center is a business center for musicians where they can go to use computers, faxes, and phone lines to book performances and develop their profession. The Co-Op is providing free membership to musicians displaced by the Hurricane, and they are also assisting these same musicians to book performances locally.
Dan Garner, Office Mgr.
700 Texas Street
Shreveport LA 71101
phone: (318) 934-0000
fax: (318) 934-0100
http://www.musicofficecoop.com
PublicWebStations is working to install business center to the huge numbers unable to return to their homes for weeks or even months. Free, readily-available public access to the Internet can provide a crucial lifeline both for the displaced and for the aid workers who have come to help them. For musicians, they can direct you a working center. They are also seeking Volunteers and Charitable Giving. See www.publicwebstations.com
Childcare for victims of Katrina
The Child Care Association of Louisiana has established the CCAL Katrina Fund to provide childcare for those in need! For information on childcare relief for Katrina victims, contact www.nccanet.org/. or call 1-800-488-2793.
The Association to Benefit Children (ABC) has been called upon by the New York Mayor's Office of Emergency Management to provide childcare for the victims of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. ABC will set up A Child's Space, a therapeutic play space, for children affected by Hurricane Katrina at the Disaster Assistance Service Center in Manhattan. Located at unpublished location on the west side above 125th Street, the center's hours of operation will be from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week. If you are seeking wonderful, safe childcare, contact Andrea Zepler at 212-845-3844 or visit www.a-b-c.org
Other helpful sites
SAVE NOLA MUSIC, a site created to connect the New Orleans music community with resources that are currently available to them and to provide suggestions for those who want to make contributions. Goto http://www.savenolamusic.com/index.php
http://www.wwoz.org
www.craigslist.org
www.villagevoice.com (NY housing and gigs etc.)
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