Sweet Home New Orleans

Our Mission: To enhance and expand the conditions by which musicians and Mardi Gras Indians economically benefit from their creative assets and are actively engaged in decision-making affecting the broader New Orleans’s regional cultural landscape.

Our Vision: To create an environment in the New Orleans region where musicians and Mardi Gras Indians are self-sustaining and thrive. We aim to establish working models that can be replicated as viable methods in building vibrant creative and indigenous communities.

We serve the city’s musicians and Mardi Gras Indians, the practitioners of a distinctive and irreplaceable segment of American culture that is treasured worldwide.