Habitat for Humanity Plans New Orleans Musician Village; Organization Needs $7.5 Million to $15 Million to Complete Project
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › December 09, 2005
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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.
More than $2 million has been raised for the project dreamed up by Connick and Marsalis - a neighborhood built around a music center where musicians can teach and perform, said Jim Pate, executive director of New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity.See the full content of this document
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Habitat for Humanity Plans New Orleans Musician Village; Organization Needs $7.5 Million to $15 Million to Complete Project
The first $1 million came from benefit concerts in New York three weeks after the storm, said Quint Davis, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival producer who help...
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