Who We Are
Photo of Patrina Peters, Wild Queen of the Red Hawk Hunters Mardi Gras Indians. Photo by Jay Martin (r) Jay A. Martin. All rights reserved.
Sweet Home New Orleans is a one-stop service center for the musicians, Mardi Gras Indians and Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs of the Greater New Orleans area. Dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage of New Orleans, Sweet Home New Orleans provides in-depth assistance in the areas of social support, legal needs and job creation, as well as extensive referral services to other resources serving the music community.
News
HBO’s Treme presents the 3rd annual My Darlin’ New Orleans, an auction and celebrity gala to benefit the Roots of Music, the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic, and Sweet Home New Orleans.
Purchase advance tickets now for $125
Ticket price will increase to $150 in mid-March.
View our online auction items
View event details here
Our Community
Who We Help
Sweet Home New Orleans serves the 4,500 musicians, Mardi Gras Indians and Social Aid & Pleasure Club members who make up New Orleans’ unique musical and cultural communities. Our musician clients range from older jazz legends who are trying to retrieve royalties owed from decades old recordings to young brass band players working on their first contracts.
Read stories about who we help here
Donors
Help From Switzerland
Robyn Tanner, a native New Orleanian who lives in Switzerland, and good friend Barbara Keller-Inhelder wanted to help this city after Katrina. They figured, what better way to help than to cook jambalaya at the local jazz festival, Blues ‘n Jazz Rapperswil! Thanks to their efforts over two years, they were able to raise $10,000 which they generously donated to Sweet Home New Orleans. We can’t begin to thank them enough, and would love to share their story with you here…
Learn more about Robyn Tanner here