Member Since: 7/15/2006
Band Website: phillytoneworleans.org
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Influences: Philly to New Orleans:
- books ongoing benefits raising money to send local artists and musicians to volunteer with Hands on New Orleans where they will be working to rebuild homes for displaced musicians, restore music venues and work on other necessary post Katrina projects in the city.
(The first Philly to New Orleans team of volunteers arrived in NOLA Sept 27, 2006) These shows have been held exclusively at World Cafe Live but will expand to include other venues sometime after November 2006.
-plans itineraries for the volunteers at night to hear, meet and often times play shows with great NOLA artists.
-Works to support and encourage tourism to return to New Orleans at all our events by distributing flyers and tourist booklets, showing promotional marketing videos, raffling off trips, and booking a monthly series called Big Easy Sunday featuring bands, food and the spirit of New Orleans.
-Adopted the Warren Easton High School marching band and is actively raising funds to replace their instruments and uniforms by Mardi Gras.
We hope this will soon spread to other cities creating an ongoing influx of national musicians to New Orleans working to preserve our musical heritage and returning home musically and spiritually recharged.
Our goal is to go down there and take care of our own.
For arts sake.
Future projects:
-raising funds and materials for the specific projects we will be working on.
-provide a house backline for the Hands on New Orleans headquarters and have our musicians perform for the staff and resident volunteers when we are in town.
-produce a Philly to New Orleans CD compilation including songs by local artists written about New Orleans and the storm... width="425" height="350" ..
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