In 2005 U2's The Edge visited the devastation left behind from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans (click here for more)

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Music Rising supports the many vibrant traditional celebratory sounds of New Orleans (click here for more)

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U2's The Edge, Green Day's Bilile Joe Armstrong and Bono perform "The Saints Are Coming" at the reopening of the Louisiana Superdome in September 2006 (click here for more)

Photo credit: Shahar Azran
 

Music Rising re-opened the Preservation Jazz Hall in New Orleans in April 2006 (click here for more)

Photo credit: Shahar Azran
 

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