Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Habitat, Connick Jr, and Marsailis working together to build Musician's Village
I wonder where they will put this?
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Singer Harry Connick Jr. and saxophone player Branford Marsalis are working with Habitat for Humanity to create a "village'' for New Orleans musicians who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina and its floods. Jim Pate, executive director of New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity, says more than $2 million has been raised for the project dreamed up by Connick and Marsalis. The neighborhood would be built around a music center where musicians can teach and perform.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Singer Harry Connick Jr. and saxophone player Branford Marsalis are working with Habitat for Humanity to create a "village'' for New Orleans musicians who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina and its floods. Jim Pate, executive director of New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity, says more than $2 million has been raised for the project dreamed up by Connick and Marsalis. The neighborhood would be built around a music center where musicians can teach and perform.
more here