Before Ida, the jazz community was already reeling from the ongoing pandemic, which has shut down music venues, canceled shows and left many in the music community without an income or a lifeline. AmericaStrong
as a Category 4 hurricane on Aug. 29 -- almost exactly 16 years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city that is known as the birthplace of jazz.Before Ida, the jazz community was already reeling from the ongoing pandemic, which has shut down music venues, canceled shows and left many in the music community without an income or a lifeline.
At the time, she and her husband, musician Pat Casey, who perform as the duo LoveBirds, had just become new parents to baby Riley."All of a sudden, everything we could do financially [to support our family] was just stopped," Barnes Casey said. Gov. John Bel Edwards reinstated the mask mandate in August, and large gatherings like the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which was scheduled to run in October, were canceled again this year."COVID took away all the gigs, [and] then the hurricane comes in, not only taking the gigs or prospects of gigs away, but it's destroyed your property," Douget told ABC News as he helped his parents deal with hurricane damage to their home.
"During 2020 we assisted more musicians and more families across the country than we did in any year previous," Petrucelli said."This was because we're dealing with such widespread deprivation and devastation and loss of work that the need was really universal."When Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, Barnes Casey was 17, and as she left her home in New Orleans amid the destruction, she found hope in music.
And according to Petrucelli, many were able to raise relief funds to support the music community through their efforts."There's just been so much, so much goodwill and kindness," he said. Just last week, prominent New Orleans musician Bennie Pete, a founding member of the Hot 8 Brass Band, became the latest member of the city’s jazz community to die of COVID-19.
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