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  Hillsborough (North Carolina), USA - A full week post-Katrina, Little
Freddie King's name finally posted on the Red Cross Survivor's List. The
65-year-old blues musician, presumed dead, and last seen in New Orleans' 9th
Ward, was alive.
"Bluesman Missing" was the headline of an article posted earlier that
week by Noah Adams
on National Public Radio's website -- an article hoping to help locate Little Freddie King. But by
Wednesday, with still no word from Freddie, most assumed he was either too
injured to talk or had drowned or had died in one way or another.
Aid to Little Freddie King -- who like so many are thankfully alive but without
a home -- will come through the New Orleans Musicians Fund, established by the
501C-3 (established in 1994) Music Maker Relief Foundation, run by Tim and
Denise Duffy.
Music Maker Relief Foundation has been lauded by press internationally for
preserving the roots of American music. In a segment on ABC Nightly News
(profiling Tim Duffy as Person of the Week), Little Freddie King was seen by
viewers across America, playing at a juke joint during Jazz Fest, then riding
his bicycle on Lafayette Street, in his neighborhood
known as the 9th Ward -- now underwater.
A year from Freddie's appearance on ABC News: Music Maker Relief Foundation is
taking calls and e-mails from around the world from people interested in
donating money and instruments to help the long lists of musicians like Freddie.
Those who want to direct their funds toward the music community -- help with
emergency aid and also preservation of culture -- should visit
www.musicmaker.org or call 919.643.2456 for more information about the New
Orleans Musicians Fund.
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)
[Little Freddie King photo courtesy of Music Maker Relief Foundation].
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