St. Anna's Community Drum Circle and Health Fair 8/30
St. Anna's Episcopal Church will be hosting a community drum circle and health fair from 2-4 PM on Saturday, August 30th. There will be therapeutic drum circles as well as blood pressure, diabetes, and depression screenings. Everyone is welcome to attend.

NOMC featured on WWOZ's Street Talk
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New Orleans Musicians’ Assistance Foundation named one of twenty-five organizations in the area to receive federal grant funding to provide individuals with medical and mental health care. (read more)

Congo Square Project
Armed with the knowledge that New Orleans is a Mecca from which modern music of every genre stems, drummer and producer Fabian Jolivet created The Congo Square Project Foundation which is producing two double albums solely to benefit this once glorious city and its musicians. (read more)

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Keeping the beat: Fresh funding gives lifeblood to musicians clinic
New Orleans CityBusiness, April 16, 2007

Health and the Jazz World
Letter to the New York Times from NOMC's own Helene Greece
NYTimes.com, February 26, 2008

America's Health Rankings
www.unitedhealthfoundation.org, 2007 Results
Vermont Residents Healthiest, Louisiana Unhealthiest

Congo Square Project
LA2DAY.COM, October 19, 2007
It ain't easy in the Big Easy
August 29, 2007
Musicians Hit Streets in Silent Protest
August 8, 2007
Strong Roots - Video essays exploring the regrowth of neighborhoods in New Orleans
Times-Picayune, July 13, 2007
Not Wash Away
Village Voice, April 24, 2007
Historic jazz church in New Orleans clings to life
Reuters, April 29, 2007
Sainte Catherine, patronne de la Clinique des Musiciens
Sweet Home New Orleans, April 17, 2007
Soigner l'esprit, le corps et l'âme
Sweet Home New Orleans, April 17, 2007
Goodbye, Teddy Badly
Times-Picayune, May 1, 2007

Post Katrina Health Care: Continuing Concerns and Immediate Needs in the New Orleans Region PDF
Testimony of Cathi Fontenot, Medical Director, Medical Center of La at N.O. and the NOMC
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, March 13, 2007

Neville Brothers
Photo by Syndey Byrd.