Ok Go benefit for New Orleans musicians

[tag]Ok Go[/tag] and [tag]Bonerama[/tag] are playing a benefit show tonight at the [tag]9:30 club[/tag] to raise funds for [tag]Al “Carnival Time” Johnson[/tag] and [tag]Sweet Home New Orleans[/tag], an organization working to help New Orleans musicians rebuild their homes and their lives.

On February 2, OK Go and Bonerama will join forces for a benefit at Washington, D.C.’s 9:30 Club. The show is in support of You’re Not Alone, a digital EP the two bands put together after OK Go spent the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina recording with the New Orleans funk-soul band deep in the city’s Upper 9th Ward. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the EP – available exclusively at iTunes – will benefit Al “Carnival Time” Johnson and other members of New Orleans’ music community who are still struggling to rebuild their homes and their lives in the wake of Katrina. The five-song mini-album will be released on February 5 – Mardi Gras.

“New Orleans is one of the last places in America where music is truly a fundamental part of everyday life,” says OK Go’s Damian Kulash. “People get together on the weekends and parade through the streets just playing songs; 12-year-old-kids learn funk on the tuba; everyone actually dances. Life elsewhere in the world simply isn’t as awesome. If we allow the culture of New Orleans to die by leaving its musicians marooned around the country, it will be a terrible blow to American music.”

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  1. Faith

    I’d be nice if more celebs would come to the aid of people in NO and other places in this country instead of exporting their charity to Africa because it’s more exotic.

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