AfricaNOLA is an artist-run organization that serves to promote, preserve, perpetuate, encourage and share West African culture in New Orleans. Our mission is realized through the teaching and performance of traditional West African music , American jazz, and New Orleans brass band music. AfricaNOLA believes it is essential that New Orleans’ youth are knowledgeable of the origins of the local music culture and capable of sustaining themselves financially through that knowledge. Using that knowledge as a creative outlet and becoming financially independent using their shared heritage as a source of income will help our youth form a stronger sense of self and a commitment to community preservation. (Facebook)
