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Pirates for the Preservation of New Orleans Music (PPNOM) is a Texas Nonprofit Corporation dedicated to the raising of funds to be used toward the rebuilding of the music education programs of the New Orleans public schools hardest-hit by Hurricane Katrina. Founded by legendary Austin, Texas pirate band The Jolly Garogers and working in conjunction with our favored promotional partner - The South by Southwest Music Festival (SXSW) - the proceeds from the PPNOM International Cash Donation Drive will be used by the PPNOM Executive Team to purchase quality musical instruments at an affordable price from a New Orleans dealer of musical instruments. These instruments will then be delivered by PPNOM and our partners directly to the New Orleans schools with the greatest need of the assistance we have to offer. This grassroots, non-bureaucratic approach to helping rebuild the public school music education programs of post-Katrina New Orleans allows your contribution to the PPNOM project to make a difference today.

Please read more about The PPNOM Mission and give generously to Pirates for the Preservation of New Orleans Music.

The students of New Orleans need your help….

THE PYRATES WAY Magazine becomes first PPNOM Premiere Sponsor

The Pirates for the Preservation of New Orleans Music Board of Directors is pleased to announce that our good friend Steve “The Black Fox” Kimball, Publisher of The Pyrates Way magazine, has become the first Premiere Sponsor of Pirates for the Preservation of New Orleans Music.

As a PPNOM Premiere Sponsor, The Pyrates Way Magazine is offering $50 off all 1/2-page ads appearing in this spring’s PyrateCon 2008 issue of The Pyrates Way magazine. Each ad purchased at this reduced price will generate a $50.00 contribution from The Pyrates Way Magazine to the Pirates for the Preservation of New Orleans Music general operating fund. At PyrateCon 2008, and in further support of the PPNOM Mission, The Pyrates Way will also raffle-off four original paintings that were reproduced for use on the back covers of the Autumn 2007, Winter 2007, Spring 2008 and Summer 2008 editions of The Pyrates Way. At PyrateCon 2008, $1 will buy you four raffle tickets, making you eligible to win these works of art. The more tickets YOU buy, the bigger YOUR chance to win. 100% of these proceeds will be donated to PPNOM.

PPNOM cannot sufficiently express our gratitude to Steve, The Pyrates Way Magazine, and to Bob Brinkman of Modern Bard - who spearheaded the LAFITTE’S RETURN Volumes 1 & 2 CDs. Finally, our heartfelt thanks go out to all you scallywags who joined in this noble effort to save the wonderful traditions of New Orleans Music!

BENEFIT CD: “Lafitte’s Return” - Vols. 1 & 2 - Pirates United for PPNOM

Pirate musicians worldwide have banded together in support of the PPNOM project to compile and release a two-volume CD, entitled “Lafitte’s Return”. The brainchild of Bob Brinkman of Modern Bard, “Lafitte’s Return” features music from over twenty-five nationally and internationally known maritime bands and musicians, including Skip Henderson, Tom Lewis, the Pyrates Royale and, of course, The Jolly Garogers. Proceeds from the sale of “Lafitte’s Return” will go directly to the coffers of the PPNOM project, giving a greatly appreciated pre-Valentine’s Day boost to the PPNOM International Cash Donation Drive. Buy either (or, even better, both) Volumes for yourself (or your favourite Scallywag) HERE. PPNOM would like to thank Bob and all the Dread Pirates worldwide who put this project together so quickly and so well. For a “behind-the-scenes” look at the “Lafitte’s Return” project, click HERE.

The PPNOM Charter:

Austin, Texas, The Live Music Capital of the World, understands that the worldwide community of musicians is one with no borders. Utilizing our combined resources, we can deliver significant, tangible benefits in a relatively brief period of time to the public school music programs of New Orleans, Louisiana - a city with a Musical Spirit kindred to our own.