Press
LSU Health New Orleans Supports Musicians and Artists
Cherice Harrison-Nelson is a Mardi Gras Indian Queen. She is the third generation, among five in her family, to carry on the Black New Orleans tradition of “masking Indian.” It’s a celebration of [...]
Playing Doctors: Inside the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic
Raymond Weber says type 2 diabetes "snuck up" on him ― which makes sense. Playing 6-hour gigs four nights a week at Fat Cats on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, plus assorted weekend [...]
Hard Times In The Big Easy
Vanity Fair - June 11, 2020 "Jazz will survive COVID. New Orleans as we’ve known it? Maybe not."
Jazz funerals silenced: How New Orleans grieves amid coronavirus
Featured Syndey Byrd photographs provided by the archive at NOMAF.
New Orleans club owner serving free meals to first responders, hospitality workers
New Orleans, a city known for its music, has been hauntingly silent during the coronavirus outbreak. Meet one music club owner who partnered with a musicians’ clinic to make free meals for hospitality members [...]
Going Old School
To reach people without internet access, the NOMC has created a series of fact sheets about COVID-19.
Awards
2018 National Association for Rural Mental Health’s Peter G. Beeson Rural Arts Award
Presented for 20+ years of comprehensive and mental health services
2018 Spirit of Satchmo Advocacy Award
Presented to Bethany Bultman
2016 Life City Green Games Award
Presented for Emerging Leadership
2014 Urban Wealth Award for Outstanding Community Partnership
2011 Offbeat Best of the Beat
Musician Resource Award
2010 N.A.D.A. Award for “Helping Louisiana Listen To The Music”
Honorary Recipient: Bethany Bultman
2010 Offbeat Best of the Beat
Musician Resource Award
2008 Tobacco Free Living Award
Outstanding Tobacco Prevention and Control Advocate
2007 New Orleans City Council
Special Recognition
2007 Big Easy Music Awards
Special Recognition
2006 Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame Community Support Award
2006 Offbeat Best of the Beat Awards
For Keepin’ Music Alive
2006 Arts Council of New Orleans
Mayor’s Arts Award
2004 Offbeat Best of the Beat Awards
Mayor’s Music Champion Award
2004 Jazz Journalists Association
“A” Team Award for Advocates, Altruists, Aiders and Abettors
2002 Offbeat Best of the Beat Awards
Heartbeat Award
2000 The State of Louisiana
Special Recognition for founding the First Comprehensive Healthcare Clinic for Musicians in the US
1998 Pfizer Award for Excellence in Research, Education, and Patient Care