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MFT Concert 2009
Jan. 14, in New Orleans. Details, including guest artists and host, TBA soon!
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MFT T-shirts
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Jazz Fest Grant
Click here to read about MFT's grant at Jazz Fest!
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MFT Video
Click to watch our new video!
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The mission of Music for Tomorrow is to provide resources to enable the continuation of music traditions in need of assistance. These traditions are an important part of a shared culture heritage, which Music for Tomorrow wishes to preserve. The organization will achieve this by awarding grants to musicians and ensembles, presenting or subsidizing concert series, and supporting music institutions that protect our musical heritage.
Music for Tomorrow is currently committed to providing aid to the city of New Orleans, (1) by helping displaced musicians return to New Orleans, through grants for housing and living, (2) by helping, musicians already back in New Orleans through the subsidization of concerts and with need based grants, (3) and by supporting efforts to construct a National Jazz Center, which will serve as the first home for Jazz in America, through a partnership with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.
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Though considerable time has passed since Hurricane Katrina devastated the American Southeast, New Orleans'vibrant culture
is still in dire need of rescue.
As detailed in a report commissioned by the mayor's Bring New
Orleans Back Committe on Culture, to which the Music for Tomorrow cofounders contributed, over 4,000 artists left because of damage and have yet to return, 260 art venues and performance
halls were damaged, and 75 percent of the city's cultural venues are still closed--some to never reopen.
Fewer than 10 percent of New Orleans' musicians remain in the city since the storm.
Music for Tomorrow formed out of recognition that more support is needed to save America's Jazz culture. New Orleans is
the very birthplace of Jazz, home to Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, and countless others. A great deal of work is still
needed to make sure this culture is preserved, and Music for Tomorrow is committed to helping every step along the way.
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