I listen to wwoz.org, the public, music heritage station in New Orleans almost every day - great music. Needless to say over the last couple of days the grim reality of the scope of this catastrophe has been setting in on the djs and guests; unimaginably heartbreaking on a local level after having some hard gained success with their school system, lower unemployment, more construction and of course the Saints Championship run.
So in unbowing New Orleans form, in a week's amount of time, wwoz and local music/festival producers have put together a benefit concert for the fisherman, wetlands restoration and killed workers families. I have provided the link below to wwoz.org and a snippet from their website (I called for permission)in case anyone wants to donate tickets or even MORE fun, buy tickets and actually go enjoy a whole day of John Legend, Dr. John, Lenny Kravitz and many others.
http://www.wwoz.org/
On Sunday, May 16, WWOZ and its partners will present Gulf Aid, a benefit concert to raise funds to keep the BP oil spill out of our wetlands and help fishermen and their families. The concert will be at Mardi Gras World River City and features Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, Allen Toussaint, Mos Def, Ani DiFranco, Kermit Ruffins and many more
The dj earlier today said he hopes this will be the only concert needed, but fears many more events will be needed - no sadder, truer words were ever spoken.