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Article: Singing for the city; Social Club keeping New Orleans music and hope alive
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- 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
around the country, where they sat wondering if they had seen the
last of the New Orleans music they knew and loved.
Meanwhile, New York producer Leo Sacks, who also had strong ties
to New Orleans, was pondering the same ...