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Press releases

  • 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
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  • 3/11/2010 – Music Gets a Home
    Work Begins on Ellis Marsalis Center for Music in New Orleans Upper Ninth Ward
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • 5/8/2007 – Boston Women Build in the Bayou
    Seasoned Professionals and Emerging Leaders Collaborate for Habitat for Humanity Project.
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  • 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.
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  • 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...
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  • 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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Current news
  • 2/21/2010 – The White House Blog
    Harry Connick Jr. Live from the White House
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  • 2/5/2010 – WHO DAT!!!!!
    Musicians’ Village residents come together to record the song “Wit Da Saints.”
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  • 2/3/2010 – National Building Museum Announces 2010 Honor Award Recipients
    Perkins+Will / New Orleans Habitat Musicians' Village / Solar Decathlon
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  • 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...
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  • 7/21/2009 – Entergy Innovation Center Invitation
    Invitation to the Grand Opening of the Entergy Innovation Center on Wednesday, July 22nd
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  • 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...
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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  • 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...
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  • 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.
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  • 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...
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  • 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.
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  • 10/26/2007 – Hard-hit Upper 9th Ward is uplifted by Habitat
    Contrast underscores power of volunteerism
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 7/30/2007 – A Blessing...
    The merging of cultures celebrates a new beginning
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  • 6/12/2007 – Baptists pledge to build 300 houses in 5-year period
    In a partnership with the Habitat for Humanity, First Baptist Church
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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."
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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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The music and musicians of New Orleans have always been the city’s heart and soul.  Your support of New Orleans Habitat Musicians’ Village is the best way to ensure that my home town lifts itself from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina with heart and soul intact.- Harry Connick, Jr.


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Video: The Village through Harry's eyes, two years later.



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