AWF Chairman Mitch Winehouse in town Monday, May 7^th to present check to NOJO

The Amy Winehouse Foundation in the US (AWF-US) is joining hands with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra  (NOJO) to help fulfill Amy’s wish to help preserve Jazz culture in New Orleans and empower children through music education.  The AWF-US announced its first pledge of $10,000 to NOJO last month at the Foundation’s US launch in NYC.

We're honored to be the first US receipent to receive a gift from the Amy Winehouse Foundation.  We look forward to helping achieve her goal of preserving New Orleans Jazz.

Grammy Award-winning Irvin Mayfield and The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) are pleased to announce “THE BIG BEAT,” Jazz’s first major fundraising event in the City of New Orleans, on April 19, 2012 at the JW Marriott from 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM. THE BIG BEAT celebrates the tradition of percussion and drums from which Jazz evolved and will raise funds that are essential to its advancement.