Working with other Oregon businesses, realtors, local government and travel agencies, the Jazz Festival is offering a temporary home in Portland to any New Orleans musician who needs it.
The organization will coordinate temporary housing, pay for musicians to fly to the city from the Gulf region, help get children into public schools, help spouses find jobs and -- perhaps most important -- do what it can to get the musicians gigs at the jazz clubs that dot the Northwest. And all displaced musicians are welcome to perform at the February festival.
hey that's cool. We've raised more than 15K so far in our local efforts, clubs sponsoring events and more. If you play out, contact clubs and see if the mgt can get a major sponsorship from their reps. We had Molson sponsor our last event and raised nearly 3500 in one weekend. Most cities have a local rep from those companies. Ask mgt and owners to contact them. Churches and other organizations are also sponsoring musical events that have raised similar using Pepsi, Coca Cola and other sponsors. Most likely you have things in your region catering as such. The more, the better!
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The organization will coordinate temporary housing, pay for musicians to fly to the city from the Gulf region, help get children into public schools, help spouses find jobs and -- perhaps most important -- do what it can to get the musicians gigs at the jazz clubs that dot the Northwest. And all displaced musicians are welcome to perform at the February festival.