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http://www.sfbayou.com/9/2/05 6:30 pm CT
Help for MusiciansFrom Marce Lacouture:
Healthcare for Musicians and several other organizations, including the Grammy's MusiCares program and The New Orleans Musicians Clinic, have joined to create the Lafayette Health Alliance to specifically help musicians and music business professionals.
People can send money donations to Healthcare for Musicians which has an emergency fund account set up through SW LA Health Education Center, its sponsoring non-profit agency.
The address is:
Healthcare for Musicians
103 Independence Blvd.
Lafayette, LA 70506
If anyone knows of any displaced musicians who need help please let them know to call Healthcare for Musicians at 337-988-1583 Through MusiCares they can get financial help for all basic needs.
There will be a press release in print media and announcements on radio stations very soon about this. I'll send that to you as soon as I receive it.
Thanks for inquiring and our thanks to those who have contacted you!
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From the offbeat.com forum
MusiCares offers help; fund-raisers planned
By David Williams
September 3, 2005
A million dollars in help is available for music makers affected by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
The Grammy organization and its MusiCares Foundation announced that initial donation to help music people with everything from basic living expenses to replacement instruments.
Those seeking funds may call (877) 626-2748.
"We're not the Red Cross, but I don't know that the Red Cross understands how to get a musician who lost everything a guitar or trumpet or saxophone or drum kit," said Jon Hornyak, executive director of the local chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, the Grammy organization.
New Orleans and Mississippi are part of the Memphis chapter.
The MusiCares Hurricane Relief Fund will provide funds for shelter, food, utilities, transportation, medical expenses and medication, clothing, instrument and recording equipment replacement, relocation costs, school supplies for students, insurance payments and more.
"We expect to, as soon as possible, have someone for MusiCares in our office in Memphis (to) directly assist people with this," Hornyak said.
He said a Memphis fund-raiser also is being planned. Other regional chapters also will stage fund-raisers.
"Our organization has never earmarked this amount of money specifically to help out music people like this," Hornyak said, "and it's only the beginning of other things that will go on."
In another effort to help musicians, the Beale Street Merchants Association is creating paid gigs in the entertainment district, as well as jobs for displaced restaurant workers.
It isn't known how many New Orleans musicians are in town, but the number is expected to grow.
"It's my guess that New Orleans has more working musicians than any city in America," Hornyak said. "Obviously, these people, besides having no place to live, have no place to work for who knows how long.
"This is the most natural place for them to come. Here and Austin is where a lot of people will show up."
― steve k, Monday, 5 September 2005 03:34 (eighteen years ago) link