Musician Resources

WWOZ.org

• Getting Airplay for Your CD on WWOZ: We answer some frequently asked questions about getting your CD played on the air.
• How to Submit Your Event to the Livewire Music Calendar: If you are a local musician or club with a gig to promote, check out our guidelines on submitting your event to the Livewire Music Calendar.
• WWOZ Discussion Forums: Chat with listeners and show hosts about New Orleans music & culture. All you have to do to participate is register as a site user.

Economic Development and Job Skills Training

• New Orleans Music Co-op: Tipitina's Foundation provides fully equipped workspaces for musicians and other digital media professionals.
• Cutting Edge Music Business Conference: A yearly New Orleans conference that focuses on music business education.
• Jazz & Heritage Talent Exchange: A free, searchable directory of Louisiana music in all genres, brought to you by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation and available to all musicians currently residing in Louisiana.

Grants and Other Funding

• Arts Council of New Orleans
• Louisiana Division of the Arts

Housing

• Sweet Home New Orleans: One of WWOZ's partner organizations, SHNO offers social services and financial assistance.
• New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation: WWOZ's parent organization offers many different programs for musicians including Raisin' the Roof and S.E.E.D. (Supporting Enfranchising Economic Development).
• Habitat NOLA: New Orleans branch of Habitat For Humanity, the group behind the Musicians' Village.
• Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans (NHS): Home buying and home renovation assistance.

Instrument Replacement

• Tipitina's Foundation: Tips' "Instruments Are Comin'" program increases youth participation in the Greater New Orleans area school music programs by providing new instruments.

Medical Care

• New Orleans Musicians' Clinic: Providing affordable health care to New Orleans musicians.

Legal Services

• LawHelp.org/LA: Free information on legal issues, getting legal help, community resources and courts, as well as disaster relief, employment, family law, housing, education and senior citizen rights. 
• The Entertainment Law Legal Assistance Project (ELLA): A partnership of the Arts Council of New Orleans, Tipitina's Foundation and Tulane Law School Community Service Program, the ELLA Project offers free legal assistance to low-income artists, musicians, and non-profits in Louisiana. ELLA provides assistance with copyright and intellectual property, business and non-profit incorporation, contracts and other civil law matters.

Professional Organizations

• American Federation of Musicians: New Orleans Local 174-496 provides valuable assistance for professional musicians.

About New Orleans

• AIDBEAM: Guide to the Arts of the Big Easy

Buy a CD to Help New Orleans Musicians

• Carrollton Station Foundation: Feeder Bands on the Run, a New Orleans inspired compilation CD by local songwriters about "Hope, Havoc & Home."
• New Orleans Underground: Sounds Below Sea Level: A compilation of New Orleans bands produced by former Louisiana residents who now live in Brooklyn, New York.

Jazz: An Endangered Art Form

• Jazz Foundation of America: An organization dedicated to preserving the history and future of jazz and promoting all types of jazz.

New Orleans Relief Organizations

• New Orleans Musician's Relief Fund: Contributions to the New Orleans Musician's Relief Fund are tax-deductible and go toward giving assistance to displaced New Orleans musicians.
• Jazz Hilft: A German organization that aids New Orleans and its musicians.
• JazzAscona: A Swiss festival/organization assisting New Orleans musicians.

Help For Musicians Everywhere

• MusiCares: Organization set up by the Grammys and providing assistance to musicians.
• Musicians Foundation, Inc.: Support for all musicians, regardless of genre.
• MusicMaker Relief Foundation: A non-profit organization dedicated to helping the true pioneers and forgotten heroes of Southern musical traditions gain recognition and meet their day-to-day needs.
• Music Rising: A national campaign created by U2's The Edge and producer Bob Ezrin with lead partners Gibson Guitar and Guitar Center/Musician's Friend, administered by the MusiCares Foundation. The campaign's goal is to put instruments back into the hands of musicians who lost them in hurricane disasters and to help them regain their livelihood while rebuilding the heart and culture of the Gulf region.
• Rhythm & Blues Foundation: Supports R&B and Motown artists of the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
• Society of Singers: An organization for professional singers.