The New Orleans Musicians Clinic describes the community it serves the following way:
“New Orleans musicians, tradition bearers, and their families.”
What are “tradition bearers?”
If you know New Orleans, you know that in addition to the city’s unique musical culture, the city also has social traditions – Mardi Gras Indian tribes, social aid and pleasure clubs, and other groups – that are not found anywhere else in America.
In this video, Chuck Perkins, the New Orleans-born poet whose work is featured at the end of the video on the SavetheClinic.org home page, …

A lot of people have inquired about the music at the very beginning of the Save the Clinic promo video.
Who is it? What CD is that from? Where can I get a copy?
There’s no CD and what you heard wasn’t recorded in a studio either.
It came from an informal backyard jam, or in this case a parking lot jam, led by Treme born singer and trombonist Glenn David Andrews.
No prep. No rehearsal. No score. Just a reverent jam on a Mardi Gras Indian chant.
Unfortunately, I don’t …