- 8/9/2011 – ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC TO OPEN IN NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS’ VILLAGE
Center Named for Legendary Pianist and Educator Will Serve the Upper Ninth Ward and the Wider New Orleans Community
View Press Release - 3/1/2011 – APRIL 4th BENEFIT CONCERT
Harry Connick, Jr. & Orchestra to perform in New Orleans
View Press Release - 10/14/2010 – Voodoo, Blues & ZuZus
House of Blues Event Will Benefit the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music at New Orleans Musicians’ Village
View Press Release - 8/30/2010 – Hurricane Katrina 5th Anniversary
Press clips and photos commemorating the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
View Press Release - 8/26/2010 – 5th Anniversary Press Schedule
National media outlets will be broadcasting from the Musicians' Village this weekend. Read on for more details.
View Press Release - 8/12/2010 – Join us August 24 - 28, 2010 for the 5th Anniversary Build-a-Thon!
NOAHH will host the “5th Anniversary Build-a-Thon ” in New Orleans...
View Press Release - 7/20/2010 – ICONIC MARSALIS FAMILY TO RELEASE A LIVE ALBUM, “MUSIC REDEEMS”
Proceeds To Benefit The Ellis Marsalis Center For Music In New Orleans.
View Press Release - 3/11/2010 – Music Gets a Home
Work Begins on Ellis Marsalis Center for Music in New Orleans Upper Ninth Ward
View Press Release - 2/5/2010 – WHO DAT!!!!!
Musicians’ Village residents come together to record the song “Wit Da Saints.”
View Press Release - 2/3/2010 – The National Building Museum Honors ‘Civic Innovators’
On May 11, 2010, the NBM will hold its 24th Honor Award ceremony to recognize 3 organizations that have advanced the quality of our built environment.
View Press Release - 7/21/2009 – Entergy Innovation Center Invitation
Invitation to the Grand Opening of the Entergy Innovation Center on Wednesday, July 22nd
View Press Release - 9/13/2007 – New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity to Celebrate the Beginning of the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music
Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis kicked off the groundbreaking of the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music
View Press Release - 5/8/2007 – Boston Women Build in the Bayou
Seasoned Professionals and Emerging Leaders Collaborate for Habitat for Humanity Project.
View Press Release - 8/29/2006 – New Orleans Habitat Musicians’ Village Continues Building
New Orleans Habitat for Humanity has transformed a vacant, blighted school lot into a vision of hope in the city’s recovering Upper Ninth Ward.
View Press Release - 6/1/2006 – New Orleans Habitat Musicians’ Village Dedicates First New Homes
Three new homes in what eventually will become a thriving neighborhood now stand as a testament to the determination of New Orleans to rebuild...
View Press Release - 5/1/2006 – Dave Matthews Band Makes $1.5 Million Challenge Grant
Dave Matthews Band Makes $1.5 Million Challenge Grant to Support New Orleans Habitat Musicians’ Village
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- 2/4/2013 – Hundreds Fitted With New Hearing Aids
More beautiful sounds than ever met the ears of visitors at the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music on Saturday afternoon...
View News Article - 11/19/2012 – Drummer, Bob French dies
First and foremost, Bob French loved New Orleans music and deeply understood the importance of its continuance from generation to generation.
View News Article - 8/29/2011 – Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, a dream come true
Branford Marsalis & Harry Connick Jr. were holding court, talking about the Center that their mutual visions, determination & much work helped create.
View News Article - 8/27/2011 – Ellis Marsalis Center for Music has many 'fathers'
Two days before Thursday’s official unveiling of the EMCM, I asked Harry Connick Jr...if he felt like an expectant father.
View News Article - 8/26/2011 – Ellis Marsalis Center For Music Opens in New Orleans Musicians' Village
As the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, the unveiling of the Music Center restores hope in the Musicians' Village
View News Article - 8/25/2011 – Ellis Marsalis Center for Music opens in Musicians' Village
On Wednesday afternoon, Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis kicked the proverbial tires at the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music...
View News Article - 4/29/2011 – Upper 9th Ward Musicians Village finally looking lived-in
THE NEIGHBORHOOD: The Musicians Village in the Upper 9th Ward, a downtown neighborhood.....
View News Article - 4/14/2011 – A Touch of Hope
"Branford Marsalis: Teamwork"
View News Article - 9/1/2010 – The Marsalis Family – Music Redeems – Marsalis Music
Music Redeems = family, charity and music that matters.
View News Article - 8/29/2010 – President Barack Obama speaks at Xavier University on the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
“I've seen the sense of purpose people felt after the storm when I visited Musicians' Village..."
View News Article - 8/27/2010 – Exclusive – Branford Marsalis: New Orleans remains in crisis
Five years after Hurricane Katrina struck and decimated my hometown...
View News Article - 8/26/2010 – Evening Buzz: Reviving NOLA's Music Scene
Tonight we bring you an AC 360° Special Report, "In Katrina's Wake: Building Up America."
View News Article - 8/26/2010 – Connick Jr., Marsalis Attend Event In Musicians' Village
Residents Hope For Still More Development Post-Katrina
View News Article - 8/24/2010 – Marsalis family puts their talent to work for a good cause
The Marsalis family rarely plays together, but the brothers seized the opportunity
View News Article - 8/15/2010 – First Listen: The Marsalis Family, 'Music Redeems'
Today's first family of jazz, the Marsalises, don't often get together, at least on stage.
View News Article - 2/21/2010 – The White House Blog
Harry Connick Jr. Live from the White House
View News Article - 2/3/2010 – National Building Museum Announces 2010 Honor Award Recipients
Perkins+Will / New Orleans Habitat Musicians' Village / Solar Decathlon
View News Article - 8/30/2009 – Sweat Equity: Rebuilding a sense of community in New Orleans
The houses are marigold, sky blue, rose, lavender, lemon, gold, cerulean, fuchsia, cream, lime - an unmistakable oasis of color...
View News Article - 5/28/2009 – Musicians’ Village Builds on City’s Culture
His cheeks puffed like a blowfish as he blew hard into the harmonica. Cigarette smoke filled the western-style, dimly lit St. Roch’s Tavern...
View News Article - 9/26/2008 – The Wee Trio sustains local vibraphonist James Westfall's New York connection
Jazz vibraphonist James Westfall didn't much care for the food, weather, attitudes and expenses encountered during a two-year New York residency
View News Article - 6/28/2008 – Being home again is music to his ears
NO PLACE LIKE HOME: Like many New Orleanians, jazz trumpeter Shamarr Allen spent his first year after Hurricane Katrina in limbo.
View News Article - 4/26/2008 – Musicians Village block reflects neighborhood rhythms
THE NEIGHBORHOOD: The Upper 9th Ward, a downtown neighborhood generally thought of as situated west of the Industrial Canal...
View News Article - 4/26/2008 – Musicians' Village block reflects neighborhood rhythms
It's almost impossible to read about the New Orleans recovery without hearing about Musicians Village.
View News Article - 1/26/2008 – Billy Ray Cyrus says he'll join daughter onstage today
"This is the first time in history, I had a good crowd on Saturday morning," said bluesman Little Freddie King...
View News Article - 1/17/2008 – Born on the Bayou: Smokey Johnson
Displaced by Hurricane Katrina, stalwart New Orleans drummer tells MP3.com he's glad to be back home.
View News Article - 10/26/2007 – Hard-hit Upper 9th Ward is uplifted by Habitat
Contrast underscores power of volunteerism
View News Article - 8/30/2007 – Musicians' Village Brings New Hope
Standing on the porch of his Caribbean blue home, Jerome "JD" Hill has every reason to smile.
View News Article - 8/5/2007 – Village Rises for New Orleans' Musicians
Standing outside his new mint-green house, Fredy Omar hears the rumble of construction trucks, the buzz of drills and the thud of hammers.
View News Article - 7/30/2007 – A Blessing...
The merging of cultures celebrates a new beginning
View News Article - 6/12/2007 – Baptists pledge to build 300 houses in 5-year period
In a partnership with the Habitat for Humanity, First Baptist Church
View News Article - 6/4/2007 – Work to begin soon on Ellis Marsalis Center
The $5.5 million center in the Musicians' Village may be completed in January
View News Article - 5/17/2007 – In Tune With The Times
MICHAEL HARRIS: Building ties in Musician's Village
ELLEN SMITH: Expanding her circle in a purple house
View News Article - 5/14/2007 – Blue As Ever
Having endured stormy relationships and even stormier weather, Little Freddie King finds there's still plenty to write songs about
View News Article - 1/15/2007 – U.Md. Band Leaves In Step With New Orleans
BALTIMORE - Ruth Sparks remembers the conversation like it was yesterday. "He said, "I want to be a band director, and I want to make a difference in people's lives."
View News Article - 1/10/2007 – Rebuilding New Orleans
Fifteen months after Hurricane Katrina rampaged along the Gulf Coast, I found myself nailing shingles to a roof in New Orleans, experiencing the aftermath of one of the costliest and deadliest natural disasters in the history of the United States with my own two eyes — and hands...
View News Article - 1/9/2007 – Journey to Aid New Orleans
This was my second time returning home from a New Orleans rebuilding trip this year knowing I'd be going back to the Big Easy...
View News Article - 5/7/2006 – After The Storm, It Takes A Village
NEW ORLEANS - Peter ''Nine'' Badie, a devout Catholic, walked into church that Sunday before Hurricane Katrina but never sat down for services...
View News Article - 4/25/2006 – It Takes a Musicians' Village
Habitat for Humanity is breaking ground in many ways with its post-Katrina planned neighborhood for local musicians.
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As one of the many musicians who was nurtured by the vibrant cultural environment in New Orleans, I cannot overstate the importance of the Musicians’ Village. Please lend your support for those artists eager to call New Orleans home again, and for those in future generations who will be the beneficiaries of their knowledge.- Branford Marsalis
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