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| Item last updated: Friday September 16 2005 08:17 |
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| News from MA and important links for Hurricane relief |
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For those of you looking to help out, the Red Cross is great, but while it provides essential assistance in the form of food, water and shelter, Hurricane victims have need for much more specific aid. Here are some ways you can help.
I am involved with a Cambridge-based New Orleans Artists and Musicians Relief Fund
Boston and Cambridge area artists and musicians have begun to organize
benefit events and activities to raise funds for New Orleans Artists and
Musicians who have been devastated by hurricane Katrina. Community Arts
Advocates will provide the nonprofit support and structure for the efforts
and donations. Funds will be sent to New Orleans Musicians Clinic, Preservation Hall, Jazz Foundation of America, and individual New Orleans street performers after a review by an independent committee.
Details and donation form are on the web page:
http://www.CommunityArtsAdvocates.org/saarelieffund.html
http://www.CommunityArtsAdvocates.org/caadeterminationletter.html
Here are links to other important sites dedicated to Hurricane relief for New Orleans musicians:
http://www.preservationhall.com/2.0/
http://www.tipitinas.com/default.asp
http://wwoz.com/ (Hear New Orleans' WWOZ "In Exile!")
WWOZ also has information about how to contact/help the New Orleans Musicians Clinic and other aid organizations: http://wwoz.org/clinic/
My web designer (and CD qraphic designer) Andrea Garland is in the trenches involved in a grassroots relief effort in and around New Orleans. Read about it, give money and hear her accounts and outspoken opinions of the situation:
http://getyouracton.com/
Massachusetts native Christopher Blagg used to write for New Orleans' Offbeat magazine. Upon hearing of my recent move to the area, he convinced his editors at the Boston Herald to let let him write a piece on my situation. Read it:
http://theedge.bostonherald.com/musicNews/view.bg?articleid=102573
Thank you all for your continued support. I'm playing some little shows and benefits in the Boston area. Check the calendar on the website frequently for updates.
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| Hurricane Katrina/Deltabilly Diaspora |
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| This is a copy of an email sent to our mailing list almost two weeks after the storm |
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Hello Friends,
First off I want to thank so many of you who emailed us expressing concern, prayers and good wishes. All of the Deltabilly Boys and families got out safely, although we worried for a while about Greg's girlfriends Julie, who was in a French Qtr hotel and moved to the Superdome. But she and her family are safe. Greg is in Ithaca, NY, thinking about moving to NYC. He was in Germany when the storm hit; it seems his neigborhood was not flooded, but he had no access to his instruments in his home. Paul and his family got out late Sunday night before the storm; they have been staying in their mobile home in a fishing camp in Livingston, La, 30 miles from Baton Rouge. They went back to Kenner (Jefferson Parish) to inspect their property: no flooding, but some roof damage. Needless to say, like thousands of others, they are eager to return home to make repairs before rain and other factors compound the damage. But the powers that be have a different agenda. Needless to say, I am horrified not only by the response to this disaster by EVERY LEVEL of government, but I am also distressed by the fact that hundred of well equipped, self-sufficient, organized citizens are in danger of being focibly evicted from homes and safe havens, even those that are in dry neighborhoods. But I will try to keep my rantings to a minimum, and get on with telling you about the band.
Saturday night before Katrina hit, myself, my wife Valery and our daughter Luciana evacuated to Baton Rouge with no difficulty. We brought with us our computers, about a weeks worth of clothes, five guitars, some musical equipment and Lucy's bicycle. For once my tendency to overpack paid off; we really didn't expect our street to be inundated by six to eight feet of water, but there it is. It soon became clear what was happening when the levee broke, and that we would not even be allowed home for months even to inspect and recover. In Baton Rouge, gas shortages, traffic jams, and local paranoia of so-called lawless "refugees" made our decision to move on rather easy. My wife and daughter flew out of Atlanta, and I drove up to meet them at my parents' house in Boston, hooking up a gig at the Pour House Music Hall along the way in Raleigh, NC. The proprietor, Marianne, alerted the media to my (our) plight, and long-story-short, I ended up on MSNBC. Here's the links to the article and video.
http://www.nbc17.com/news/4943092/detail.html
http://nbc17.feedroom.com/iframeset.jsp?ord=967258
So now we have our daughter at a great school in Cambridge (my sister teaches there), and we are looking for an apartment and work. I got my "buskers' license" from the Cambridge Arts Council and I am playing on Harvard Square. (Back to the drawing board!) I will be plugging into the music scene here, getting involved with relief awareness/fundraising and hopefully will start touring the North East. Plans to reunite the band are on hold, as we wait and see how things develop both in New Orleans and for each of us individually. Maybe down there, maybe up here -- who knows??
I will be informing you all about relief afforts and tours. I am happy to say that I have not had any terrible news about any friends -- we have been contacting each other through text messages, emails, website, phone calls, etc. I did get some bad news, though: Gatemouth Brown finally succombed to lung cancer at his family's home in Texas yesterday morning. He was gigging till the end, right up to evacuation.
Peace and prosperity to you all, death and humiliation to tyrants.
Jeremy Lyons
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