A GREAT NIGHT IN HARLEM
at the Apollo Theater on May 4th, 2006
(It's a Thursday night)
TIME: 8:00 PM
PLACE: Apollo Theater 125th Street - Harlem NYC
INFO: Jazz Foundation Events line call 212-245-3999 Ext. 29
THIS IS OUR ONE MAJOR FUNDRAISER THIS YEAR ...
To buy tickets or ads in the program. See attached pages that show you how to do that.
After keeping the roof over, replacing instruments for, and employing hundreds of New Orleans musicians, we need you now more then ever.
Please join: Bill Cosby, Danny Glover, Abbey Lincoln, James Blood Ulmer, Dr. Michael White Band, Rebirth Brass Band and Newbirth Brass band, (over 30 New Orleans musicians), plus Ron Carter, the Legendary Odetta, Jimmy McGriff, Clark Terry, Will Calhoun, and some of the very fathers and mothers of jazz and blues; like Johnnie Mae Dunson, (who wrote EVIL for Muddy Waters and played drums for Jimmy Reed, she will be coming out as well at age 85,) along with many more surprises... the best is yet to come.
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___WHY WE NEED YOU___
In the short months since the hurricane, the Jazz Foundation of America showed up for and has assisted nearly
900 New Orleans musician Emergency cases.
Keeping a roof over their heads paying rent in new places for these great musicians, as well as keeping New Orleans musicians' homes from foreclosure by paying mortgages all with our special Fund from Jarrett Lilien and the E*TRADE FINANCIAL Corp. (with special gratitude to Arlen Gelbard & Matt Geary)
Replacing over $200,000 of donated brand new top shelf instruments... for beloved giants like getting "Fats" Domino his piano, along with other greats like Henry Butler, Frogman Henry, Eddie Bo, Lionel Ferbos and so many others, even pianos for two New Orleans public schools for amazing Jackie Harris, along with thousands of dollars worth of donated new horns and drums to folks like the Treme Brass Band, Earl Turbinton, Neville family members, James Andrews, Trombone Shorty, Rebirth, Hot 8, Shannon Powell and countless others with more on the way... we were just told we are getting 20 more donated pianos delivered to New Orleans. Thanks to Beethoven Pianos, and for everything else, special thanks to Music and Art Center and Yamaha!
But it gets even better ...
EMPLOYMENT: With a gift from our very own amazing "St. Agnes" Varis, as well as Dick Parsons & Time Warner, we have managed to put in place the first serious employment program for New Orleans musicians with over half a million dollars going ONLY to employing displaced musicians of New Orleans, along with some of the elder jazz and blues greats, in 7 States who are now performing free concerts bringing "New Orleans" to schools and senior homes where they have had to resettle in Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, Kansas, NYC, Chicago and Georgia so far.
This is why we must raise money to keep the Jazz Foundation of America alive and well.
Now with our New Orleans "Family" of musicians we have come to know and love so dearly, and our regular great elderly jazz and blues artists who have given us their music for the last 40 to 60 years, and still need us to be there to keep them from hunger, eviction and homelessness; these were the folks we normally take care of who made the way for all of today's music, we must continue to be there for them as well.
With both New Orleans emergencies, and our regular elderly musicians in crisis, we have been averaging 50 individual cases per week...
But we need you all now more then ever.
The very People themselves who were the soil and the Soul of this once great City, must not be forgotten.
Affordable housing must be made possible or no one will be able to return and New Orleans. It will be like a movie set that looks so real and is constructed just for festivals and then becomes a ghost town again after the movie has been made and everyone goes home...
But as much as it has been devastating, it has proven once again, the strength of the People, and not just the ability to endure, but the ability to bring the light wherever they go, to make "home" wherever they make music.
Musicians are the healers of the world
They can take the sadness in your soul when you lose love, or the disappointment in the world that you feel each time you turn on the news, and they can make you forget or make you forgive whatever is in your heart. They can make you remember what is truly important in Life and give you joy every time.
These are the people we are helping at the Jazz Foundation of America. The folks who already made your life beautiful and already gave to you, now we are giving back to them when they need us.
"A GREAT NIGHT IN HARLEM "
This is the one concert that keeps us going all year.
This may just be our greatest concert ever, and it wouldn't be the same with YOU.
Please buy tickets or ads in the program.
http://jazzfoundation.org
From our hearts, thanks to each of you who is already part of this beautiful work and who makes it all possible.
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