Healthcare resources for cultural workers in Acadiana
Kathy Richard, Ann Kojevnikov and Chubby Carrier discuss the importance of health benefits for artists in Acadiana, and the resources available.
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 [...]
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