I'm proud to be a GRAMMY Advocacy #DistrictAdvocate! Today I join Recording Academy / GRAMMYs to urge Members of Congress to take action on key #COVID19 priorities for our music community––access to small biz loans and unemployment benefits for the music community and underserved communities.

Throughout the pandemic, the arts became our lifeline to humanity (and let's face it, sanity.) "Reinvention: Creatives Pivot in the Pandemic" celebrates the resilience of artists. This event was funded in part a grant from New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation.

Proposed Trump #SkinnyBudget eliminates Nat'l Endow f/t Arts funding. Tell your representative we need to #SAVEtheNEA. bit.ly/2k1vrd3

Perspective. Contact your legislators and ask them to #SaveTheNEA. #ArtsMatter

[Arts reveal] the inner vision which guides us as a nation. Where there is no vision, people perish.”­ ­–Pres. Lyndon Johnson #SaveTheNEA

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#CreativeIndustries Summit day at #NOEW2017 celebrating cultural economy with The JXN Cultural Economy, Creative Alliance and Downtown New Orleans. #ArtsMatter

On #entrepreneur work ethic: "I want it. And I want it bad enough that I'm not going to let anything stop me."-EW Cocoa&CreamCatering. #noew2017

Impassioned words from The United States Conference of Mayors leader Tom Cochran. "We won't let the cultural infrastructure of this nation be destroyed." #artsadvocacy

"Treat Twitter like a cocktail party conversation--and don't let others tweet for you." @jkhoey, on networking. New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW) #NOEW2017

Great advice for event producers: use local people to create authenticity. Create a niche. Gary Solomon Group, Anne Tales of the Cocktail. #noew2017

"Authentic" is the buzzword with all Fest for Success panelists. aceneworleans, Prospect New Orleans, Tales of the Cocktail, Solomon Group #noew2017.

"Be your authentic self. Don't pretend to be someone you're not."--#LeslieMiley at #NOEW2017. Again, authenticity is a recurring theme.

We had a record-breaking #ArtsAdvocacy Day, which was only made possible by YOU. Thank you, advocates.♥️ #SAVEtheNEA wapo.st/2n76Tkg

Seriously, how beautiful is this building? (Inside and out.). Ogden Museum #NOEW2017

Work for free, they say. It'll be great exposure, they say. Creative work IS work. #Art #Music #CreativeServices rightbraindiaries.com/creativescoffe…

Best #UndercoverBoss ever w Darius Rucker. Musician to musician, paying to forward. Beautiful.

This one's for all of the #artists, #jurors and #galleries that have been there, done that. Thou shalt not sin. rightbraindiaries.com/art-commandmen…

New Orleans, not everything needs to be spelled -eaux. Sometimes (always) the letter o works just fine.