Who We Are

Photo of Patrina Peters, Wild Queen of the Red Hawk Hunters Mardi Gras Indians. Photo by Jay Martin (r) Jay A. Martin. All rights reserved.

Sweet Home New Orleans is a one-stop service center for the musicians, Mardi Gras Indians and Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs of the Greater New Orleans area. Dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage of New Orleans, Sweet Home New Orleans provides in-depth assistance in the areas of social support, legal needs and job creation, as well as extensive referral services to other resources serving the music community.

News

The Healing Center

Sweet Home New Orleans has moved! As of Monday December 12th, our office is located in room 258 of the Healing Center at 2372 St. Claude Avenue. While we’ve only moved a few blocks, we’re all very excited to be joining the great organizations in the Healing Center, and love our new location! Please stop by and visit us sometime soon!

Our Community

Who We Help

Sweet Home New Orleans serves the 4,500 musicians, Mardi Gras Indians and Social Aid & Pleasure Club members who make up New Orleans’ unique musical and cultural communities. Our musician clients range from older jazz legends who are trying to retrieve royalties owed from decades old recordings to young brass band players working on their first contracts.

Read stories about who we help here

Donors

Help From Switzerland

Robyn Tanner, a native New Orleanian who lives in Switzerland, and good friend Barbara Keller-Inhelder wanted to help this city after Katrina. They figured, what better way to help than to cook jambalaya at the local jazz festival, Blues ‘n Jazz Rapperswil! Thanks to their efforts over two years, they were able to raise $10,000 which they generously donated to Sweet Home New Orleans. We can’t begin to thank them enough, and would love to share their story with you here…

Learn more about Robyn Tanner here