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";text[0] = "By funding young brass bands NOMAF strives to foster future generations to keep our jazz tradtions alive.";
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";text[1] = "NOMAF provides funding to keep the Mardi Gras Indian culture alive by supporting book giveaways in the public schools.";
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";text[2] = "NOMAF encourages better pay for musicians by sponsoring gigs via other non-profits and organizing "informed demonstrations" to get the "living wage" message to music patrons.";
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";text[3] = "Lionel Battiste speaks out about the need for better pay for musicians at the NOMAF sponsored "Silent Second Line" on the Katrina anniversary.";
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";text[4] = "Funding gigs that allow young musicians an opportunity to play with mentors is vital as NOMAF strives to keep our culture alive.";
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";text[5] = "Irma Thomas
New Orleans Vocalist 50 years
The NOMC is a blessing to all musicians, because it gives them no excuse to not get health care.
If musicians become members of the clinic and support it , they won't regret it, because it is a way to keep the music alive by keeping musicians healthy and alive.";
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";text[6] = "Often our musician's clinic patients perform at NOMAF funded gigs in which they also serve as mentors of "healthy lifesyle."";
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";text[7] = "As advocates of healthy performance envirnoments, NOMAF encourages smoke free events.";
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";text[8] = "Co-sponsoring brass bands for Social Aid & Pleasure Club events helps keep our culture alive in the local neighborhoods. ";
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";text[9] = "As advocates of healthy performance envirnoments, NOMAF encourages smoke free events.";
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";text[10] = "NOMAF sends musicians on a weekly basis to perform at the St. Josephs Homeless Recovery Center during lunch to entertain both the caregivers and those in need.";
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";text[11] = "Through our partnership with St. Anna's Mission to Musicians our NOMC providers volunteer on a mobile health unit that visits St. Joseph's Homeless Recovery Center each Wed. morning.";
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";text[12] = "NOMAF sends musicians on a weekly basis to perform at the St. Josephs Homeless Recovery Center during lunch to entertain both the caregivers and those in need.";
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";text[13] = "St. Joseph's Homeless Recovery Center offers showers, a laundry and a place for homeless men to shave, as well as access to social services and health care, and a hot lunch every day. NOMAF's "Playin for Joan" soothes their souls by funding musicians to play each week.";
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";text[14] = "NOMAF sends musicians on a weekly basis to perform at the St. Josephs Homeless Recovery Center during lunch to entertain both the caregivers and those in need.";
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";text[15] = "As advocates for better pay for our beloved musicians, NOMAF co-sponsored a SILENT SECOND LINE with the musicians union and St. Anna's Mission to Musicians on the first Katrina anniversary.";
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";text[16] = "NOMC&AF advisor, Mac Rebbenack (Dr. John) and Bethany Bultman, NOMAF President, host a post-Katrina panel at the Margaret Mead Film Festival at New York's Museum of Natural History.";
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";text[17] = "On St. Joseph's Day the NOMAF Gig Fund supported the Young Guardians of the Flame as they performed at nursing homes, for elder musicians and visited Frenchman Street music clubs.";
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";text[18] = "The Young Guardians of the Flame are supported by the NOMAF Gig Fund to entertain the residents at the Christopher Inn on Frenchman Street.";
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";text[19] = "On St. Joseph's Day the NOMAF Gig Fund supported The Young Guardians of the Flame to present Mardi Gras Indian traditions to the residents at the Christopher Inn on Frenchman Street.";
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";text[20] = "NOMAF is proud to sponsor the St. Anna's Musicians and Medical Missions. Lillian Boutte joins one of the Wed. night jam sessions after presenting a generous donation she had collected on her recent German tour.";
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";text[21] = "NOMC's Catherine Lasperches, FNP with Delfayo Marsalis on his Future Focus television program | copyright: Michael Sustendahl";
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