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  Carrboro (North Carolina), USA - Barefoot Manner, Mamadou
Diabate, Alex Weiss & Different Drum, Shamrockers and Mosadi Music will perform
at The ArtsCenter’s DeltaAid, Tuesday, September 27, 7 p.m.
These musicians are donating their time and talent for free, so that 100% of
gross ticket sales will go to ACORN's Hurricane Recovery and Rebuilding Fund.
Acorn, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. ACORN, a New
Orleans-based non-profit is the nation's largest community organization of low
and moderate income families, working together for social justice and stronger
communities. Since 1970, ACORN has grown to more than 175,000 member families,
organized in 850 neighborhood chapters in 75 cities across the U.S., including
Raleigh.
Audience members will have the opportunity to contribute additional donations
(cash or check) during the show. With 50 DeltaAid dollars, ACORN can help one
family receive direct assistance applying for FEMA aid. $100 can cover the cost
of helping three hurricane victims with loan counseling so they can work with
their mortgage and insurance companies to recoup losses and not get into
crippling debt. $500 sponsors a neighborhood effort to ensure that low-income
communities are receiving the same levels of assistance that middle-income and
affluent neighborhoods receive. The ArtsCenter, with the help of the bands and
audience members, expects to at least meet this $500 mark. "This benefit will
do more than provide charity for those in need. It will ensure that the victims
of Katrina and its aftermath are neither forgotten nor ignored," says Katina
Wimbush, Secretary of Raleigh ACORN. Tickets, on sale now at The ArtsCenter’s
box office and online at www.artscenterlive.org, are $7, $6 ArtsCenter Friends.
Visit www.artscenterlive.org or
www.acorn.org for more
information.
Links to relief organizations:Louisiana-based:
ACORN's Hurricane Recovery and Rebuilding
Fund (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now).
Baton Rouge Area Foundation:
This group is working with the New Greater Orleans Area Foundation.
whose headquarters were severely damaged.
Tipitina's
Foundation
New Orleans Musicians Clinic (NOMC). Send donations to NOMC Emergency Fund.
Funds will be distributed by:
http://www.swlahec.com
Louisiana Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals
National non-profits:
Hurricane Housing
America’s Second Harvest
Music Maker Foundation
Jazz Foundation of America
MusiCares
North Shore Animal League
National Voluntary Organizations Active in
Disaster
American Red Cross
Faith-based:
Catholic Charities USA
Mercy Corps's Katrina Fund
Episcopal Relief & Development.
United Methodist Committee
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance.
United Way Hurricane Katrina
Response Fund.
Salvation Army
Hurricane Katrina stories:
New
Orleans Musicians Who Survived Need Housing and Instruments
Emergency National Housing Drive for Hurricane Katrina Victims
WorldBeat Cultural Center Plans Hurricane Aid Caravan
Houston
Musicians Form Safe Harbor for Our New Orleans Friends
Healing
the Nation, Reggae Aid for the Gulf Coast
ReAct Now: Music & Relief to Air Saturday, September
10 from 8pm-11pm ET/PT
Black
Entertainment Television Presents S.O.S (Saving Ourselves) Telethon on September
9 for Hurricane Katrina Victims
DeltaAid: Hurricane Relief Concert
New
Orleans Jazz Emergency Relief Fund
MusiCares Creates a Hurricane Relief Fund
World Music Community Fundraises for Katrina
Hard
Rock International Announces Fundraising Activities For Hurricane Relief Effort
New
Orleans Music Club Looted
Benefit Concert for New Orleans Hurricane Victims in Toronto
Music TV Channels Announce Hurricane Katrina Relief Campaign
Sponsorship for Victims of Katrina
Relief Information to Help Victims of Hurricane Katrina (Editorial)
[Photo: Mamadou Diabate © Angel Romero].
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