[Dixielandjazz] A GREAT NIGHT IN HARLEM - Benefit's New Orleans Musicians

[Steve barbone]

April 27, 2006 To: Listings/Critics/Features

"A GREAT NIGHT IN HARLEM" at the Apollo Theater next Thursday May 4th 2006
To benefit the Jazz Foundation of America

Saving America's elderly jazz and blues musicians for the past 17 years, and
now, the musicians of New Orleans as well.

PLEASE JOIN: Bill Cosby, Danny Glover, Dr Billy Taylor,  Odetta, James Blood
Ulmer, Abbey Lincoln, over 30 musicians from New Orleans, Dr. Michael White,
Davell Crawfod, Henry Butler, Ron Carter, Harold Mabern, Ben Riley, Gary
Bartz, Johnnie Mae Dunson (85 yrs old wrote tunes for Muddy Waters and
Elvis- she's amazing!) and many more major surpirses.

Tickets through Apollo box office for $35 tickets... 212-531-5305

Orchestra is sold out, but First Mezzanine tickets available thru the Jazz
Foundation from $50, $100, and $250...call us at  212-245-3999 Ext. 29

We need everyone for this one. It's not getting much better for the New
Orleans musicians and this year, we need you now more then ever.

WHAT WE CANNOT DO ALONE, WE CAN DO TOGETHER.
The Jazz Foundation of America has:

Assisted over 1000 emergency New Orleans cases since the hurricane, replaced
over $250,000 of FREE new instruments donated by manufacturers, they even
got Fats Domino a piano, along with horns, drums and guitars to some of New
Orleans most beloved senior and junior musicians.

Established the first housing Fund to put New Orleans musicians into new
homes and keep the old ones from foreclosures, and the Jazz Foundation was
the very first to put New Orleans musicians back to work in schools and
shelters, and has been employing 200 displaced musicians in 8 states where
they have been forced to settle.

WE NEED YOU. . . To donate visit: http://www.jazzfoundation.org