New Orleans Music Meeting

Over New Orleans Music Meeting

NOMM stands for New Orleans Music Meeting, a brand new initiative to celebrate the greatness of jazz music. Several activities are organized, a.o. an international band contest and an online platform. Initiated by musicians, music business professionals and entrepreneurs NOMM is a serious attempt to repair the live jazz music infrastructure.

Why? • People younger than 65 years old hardly visit jazz concerts. This makes jazz music increasingly irrelevant for promotors, venues, politicians and sponsors; • Lack of funding and support by governments and cultural institutions; • Close to no airtime on broadcast channels, where new generations could have been inspired; • A severe erosion in the underlying ecosystem of music schools, local festivals and support for local artists; . But… is it beyond repair? We don’t believe so! Because: • A lot of young people enjoy jazz music. They sometimes just don’t know it’s jazz they are listening to, due to a lot of jazz is blended in cross over genres; • Also, even when the number of live jazz concerts is decimated over the last 10 years, still a lot of people making the big effort of organizing concerts; • Jazz music, because of the improvisational skills jazz musicians have, has the capacity to reinvent itself over and over again.

How? If we want to turn things for the good, we need to increase the number of jazz concerts, organize them smarter and inspire audiences again and again. There are jazz festivals (from large to very local) and there are jazz concerts from touring professional bands in great venues to amateur bands in a local pub. All of those matter.

What? And to help them to keep organizing and to create even more passionate organizers we’ve decided to reach out to them and create NOMM365.org. An online platform where organizers (and artists, venues, music teachers, sponsors and supporters) will find each other, helped by amazing tools to make their work more efficient. Launch date: 4 June 2020.

Trefwoorden

• Jazz Music
• New Orleans Music

Adres

• Hoofdkantoor

  Verbeetenstraat 294812XH BredaNoord-Brabant, Nederland