{"id":285,"date":"2005-12-22T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=285"},"modified":"2005-12-22T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T09:05:00","slug":"comment_katrinas_long_aftermat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2005\/12\/comment_katrinas_long_aftermat\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment: Katrina&#8217;s Long Aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As time passes and events accumulate, Katrina\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s devastation of a region and disruption of lives fade into the background of the collective consciousness. But, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2005\/12\/comment_the_red_1.html\"target=\"_blank\">Russ Layne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent comment <\/a>here reminded us, recovery is a down a long road. Trombonist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffalbert.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">Jeff Albert<\/a> responds.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am a New Orleans area musician.  I was fortunate in that I still have a home and my family are all safe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>On behalf of all of the musicians down here, I&#8217;d like to thank people like Russ Layne who have gone out of their way to help the musicians of South Louisiana.  It really does mean a lot to us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Another good charity that has helped many of us is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grammy.com\/musicares\/\"target=\"_blank\">MusiCares Foundation<\/a>, which is run by NARAS (National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences).  I have spoken to many musicians who have received assistance through MusicCares.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As time passes and events accumulate, Katrina\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s devastation of a region and disruption of lives fade into the background of the collective consciousness. But, as Russ Layne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent comment here reminded us, recovery is a down a long road. Trombonist Jeff Albert responds. I am a New Orleans area musician. I was fortunate in that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}