Live Music, Great Time & Support a Great Cause

I am really excited and grateful to announce that the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band, a 30 piece “raucous, stomp-your-foot-and-belt-out-the-choruses” New Orleans-style street band based in Somerville & Cambridge, will play a full set of amazing music in our fundraiser. 

They combine music with social action; slamming out the sounds of the legendary Crescent City for peace rallies, street festivals, parades, and OUR BENEFIT TO PAY FOR 14 O’Bryant students to go to New Orleans during their April Vacation to build homes for people who were displaced because of Hurricane Katrina. 

8 Years later 100,000 people (mostly people of color), have not yet returned to their home city and thanks to people such as the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band, the Baseball Tavern, Higs Tickets, Salvarore’s Restaurant, Mr. Craig Goldschmidt, Mr. Charlie Kim and Ms. Susan Bell, our students will be able to join the amazing work being done by thousands of volunteers via Habitat for Humanity to allow many to reclaim their hometown. 

We are especially thankful for the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band as we are donating funds to the general building of affordable homes for the people of New Orleans and matching the mandatory donation that volunteers have to pay to help the New Orleans Habitat for Humanity to the Habitat for Humanity’s New Orleans Musician Village a neighborhood designed to preserve the musical heritage of New Orleans, which consists of 72 single-family homes, five elder friendly duplexes, a toddle-friendly pocket park and the amazing Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.

Bring your dancing shoes, come have a wonderful time and help empower my students to make a difference in New Orleans and a difference in our own city!

If you can’t come, but would like to donate, you can either click HERE to donate online or send a check to:

John D. O’Bryant School of Math & Science

55 Malcolm X. Blvd

Roxbury, MA 02120

Attn: Paul Pitts-Dilley (Team New Orleans)

P.S. All contributions are tax deductible.