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August 24, 2007
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THE NEW ORLEANS SOCIAL CLUB

- 6:30 tonight

- Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, Michigan and Randolph

- Free

- (312) 742-1168

Six weeks after Hurricane Katrina forever changed New Orleans -- which happened two years ago this Wednesday -- a group of the city's esteemed musicians and singers gathered in Austin, Texas, to record an album that wound up being a therapy session for everyone involved.

Nearly all the performers had been displaced to various cities

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