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New Orleans Benefit


05/16/07
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(PR) New Orleans created American music. Now a group of musicians including the Indigo Girls, OK GO�s Damian Kulash, My Morning Jacket�s Jim James, San Francisco singer Matt Nathanson and New Orleans� legends Al �Carnival Time� Johnson and Bonearama will help recreate the devastated city by playing a benefit concert to fund housing for the city�s struggling musicians and artists.

It will be a loose and fun show with each artist performing a few songs with many of them sitting in on each other's songs. The full billing will be released closer to the concert, which will take place at Tipitina's Uptown on Sunday, May 27.

The concert is being presented by the Future of Music Coalition and Air Traffic Control. Proceeds will benefit Sweet Home New Orleans, a coalition of non-profit organizations that helps find affordable housing in New Orleans and provides rental assistance for Katrina displaced musicians, Mardi Gras performers and other traditional New Orleans artists.

Prior to the event, a group of musicians will tour New Orleans on Saturday to see the damage left by Hurricane Katrina and the rebuilding that still needs to be done. They include Jim James from My Morning Jacket and Sandy Pearlman, the producer of the Blue Oyster Cult.

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