Adath Jeshurun

From Bour­bon Street to Bour­bon Coun­try: Five Years Later

Five years ago, a local syn­a­gogue brought in four dis­placed musi­cians from New Orleans to play tra­di­tional clas­si­cal New Orleans Jazz across the city. And for one week­end in 2005, the Louisville com­mu­nity gave them home and a place to play their music, away from the Kat­rina tragedy.

These nation­ally renowned musi­cians had fled Hur­ri­cane Kat­rina, leav­ing every­thing they owned includ­ing some of their instruments.

Busi­nesses and orga­ni­za­tions ral­lied to pro­vide hotel accom­mo­da­tions and meals for the musi­cians, even a new six-string pro­fes­sional banjo. Mayor of Louisville, Jerry Abram­son, pre­sented the musi­cians with keys to the city.

Now, five years later, Con­gre­ga­tion Adath Jeshu­run is bring­ing back the leg­endary clar­inet player, Dr. Michael White and his quar­tet of world-renowned musi­cians to raise money for the Gulf region.

Can­tor David Lipp of Con­gre­ga­tion Adath Jeshu­run: “I was thrilled how the cit­i­zens and busi­nesses in Ken­tucky sup­ported and helped these musi­cians whose liveli­hood had been taken away by Hur­ri­cane Kat­rina. Now the Gulf region is being ruined again and we need to help.”

These musi­cians, who have per­formed in Lin­coln Cen­ter, Carnegie Hall and across the world, will play at a free con­cert with dessert recep­tion and Bour­bon Tast­ing on Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 4, 2010 at Con­gre­ga­tion Adath Jeshu­run, 2401 Wood­bourne Avenue, located in the Highlands.

The con­cert will start at 8:45 PM and will be taped for later broad­cast on WFPK’s Ken­tucky Home­Front radio show with John Gage. The con­cert will also fea­ture Harry Pick­ens and an orig­i­nal short story by Bob Sachs.
CD’s of Dr. White, Gage and Pick­ens will be avail­able for pur­chase after the con­cert with the men avail­able for signing.

Can­tor Lipp: “Despite the hard eco­nomic times, we all des­per­ately want to help this region. The char­i­ties are being care­fully cho­sen to ensure that all the pro­ceeds go to pre­em­i­nent char­i­ties that pro­vide the best care for both the res­i­dents of the area and the wildlife that are also being destroyed.”

All dona­tions and spon­sor­ships are tax deduc­tion with the net pro­ceeds going to The Gulf Oil Spill Fund, at the Greater New Orleans Foun­da­tion and the National Wildlife Federation’s “Gulf Oil Spill Restora­tion Fund”.

$50 Dona­tion

$100 Dona­tion

$250 Dona­tion

Or choose your own dona­tion amount:

After click­ing Donate you will be taken to PayPal’s secure site to enter your dona­tion amount and credit card infor­ma­tion (or login to an exist­ing Pay­Pal account).

Spon­sors include:
VibrantNation.com
The Louisville Con­ven­tion and Vis­i­tors’ Bureau
Ken­tucky Dis­tillers’ Asso­ci­a­tion
BC Plumb­ing Com­pany
The Jodi Lapin Fund
The Stu­art Hand­maker L’Dor Vador Fund.

In-kind dona­tions include:
Amaz­ing Green Planet, Bour­bons Bistro, Bread­works, Equus and Jack’s Lounge, HMG Media Rela­tions, Louisville Mar­riott Down­town, Louisville Slug­ger Museum, Lip­schutz Pho­tog­ra­phy, Luigi’s Pizze­ria, mag­pie alkemie graph­ics, Maker’s Mark Dis­tillery, Min­ute­man Press Down­town, Dorothy Osof­sky Travel, Repub­lic Bank, Quan­tum Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, SLYN Sys­tems, Sweet Sur­ren­der Desserts and Toby Tours.

The Bour­bon tast­ing with a min­i­mum dona­tion will be with Four Roses Dis­til­ley, Heaven Hill Dis­til­leries, Maker’s Mark Dis­tillery and South­ern Comfort.

Chairs for the event are:
Chair of the 2010 AJ Jazz Con­cert, Amy Gilbert
Hos­pi­tal­ity Chair, Lois Dun­ner
Recep­tion Chair: Jan Weber
Com­puter Dona­tion Chair: Jeff Slyn
Vol­un­teer Chair: Cheri Ben David
Vol­un­teer Chair for the Recep­tion: Deb­bie Gold­stein
Stage Man­ager, Amy Merrick