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U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Rattle & Hum)
Not filmed in New Orleans, but definitely captures the feeling of it!
Music Rising Recipients
One of more than 100 organs – and thousands of instruments - donated to Gulf Coast houses of worship post-Katrina. Photo of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, New Orleans.
Coachella Music Lounge 2010
Macy Gray mixed it up at The Music Lounge and stopped in to sign guitars for Music Rising. (Photo credit: Cie Hoover)
Alabama Slim with his MR Guitar
Blues musician Alabama Slim warms up with a Music Rising guitar - a gift from a group of generous fans! (Photo courtesy Irene Kato)
Founders Visit New Orleans
Music Rising co-founders Bob Ezrin, The Edge, and Henry Juszkiewicz visit New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina (Photo by Jamie Brown, May 2006)
Official Music Rising Guitar
Edge with the Limited Edition Music Rising Epiphone Les Paul. The guitar is available in the Store section with all proceeds benefiting MR. ONLY 25 GUITARS REMAIN!
Sundance 2010: Day 6
Musician Mike Posner (left) [J Records] (Photo by Alex Koehne)
Sundance 2010: Day 5
Swag TV host interviews The Iron Birds (by Alex Koehne)
Sundance 2010: Day 4
Melinda McGraw of "Skateland" (Photo by Alex Koehne)
Sundance 2010: Day 3
Sundance 2010: Day 2
Sundance 2010: Day 1
2006 Grammys
The Edge accepts his 2006 GRAMMY Award wearing the official Music Rising t-shirt, which is for sale to benefit the charity at hardrock.com.
Gibson Guitar Donation
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, employees of Gibson Guitar in Sept 2005 loaded up the Gibson tour bus with supplies, musical instruments and other necessities and drove them down to New Orleans, where we delivered them to many needy people.
Guitar Center
In 2005, Edge visited the New Orleans Guitar Center post-Katrina and presented instruments to musicians in need.
Icons of Music Auction
Edge signs a very limited number of Music Rising Epiphone guitars that sold for $10,000 each, with all proceeds going to Music Rising.
(Photo credit: Shahar Azran)
Preservation Jazz Hall Re-Opening
Edge, Gibson Chairman and CEO Henry Juszkiewicz and producer Bob Ezrin celebrate the reopening of the legendary Preservation Jazz Hall in New Orleans in April 2006.
Superdome Concert
The Edge, Billy Joe Armstrong and Bono performing at the Superdome.
(Photo credit: Shahar Azran)
Miscellaneous Events
Bob Ezrin, co-founder of Music Rising accepts the 2005 Billboard Humanitarian Award on behalf of Music Rising from then Billboard Editor Tamara Coniff in New York, 2006.
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Big Night for Hot Jazz at Tulane University
December 15, 2011 - What a hot night for jazz on the Tulane uptown campus — the Nicholas Payton Trio and the Tulane Big Band on stage together. The concert on Dec. 8 in Dixon Hall featured Payton, renowned trumpet player, composer and recording artist, along with student musicians directed by Jesse McBride. The concert was funded by the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, the Music Rising Initiative of the Gibson Foundation and the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South. Payton is the Jazz Artist-in-Residence at Tulane for the 2011-2012 academic year, a program also funded by Music Rising.
Check out some photos from the night at New Wave.
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MAKE IT FUNKY DVD
MAKE IT FUNKY! honors the people who wrote, played, and lived New Orleans music. New Orleans is the heart of American...
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