General Motors brand Chevrolet
Sponsored
​Rise Again, New Orleans 
Essence Magazine’s Women Shaping the World Leadership Summit 2006   
New York Kiss FM Radio, interview “Phenomenal Woman.”

Rise Again, New Orleans
A tribute to the New Orleans we love and the family and friends we miss.
A collaboration between mother and son art and music

"The pain of Katrina was a personal and difficult experience.
​ It affected our family and friends. We love New Orleans, 
and knew we had to do something.
​"Rise Again, New Orleans" was written days after Hurricane Katrina
​The project asks donors to put a
"Face on Your  Giving"
and donate to established organizations already working in the community.
For Children: KidsmArt (After School Art Programs)
For Seniors: Sisters of the Holy Family
For Schools: Charter Middle School (Green)
For Artists: Ashe Cultural Center

​"The compassion shown to me speaks to your humanity.
You may be a friend or perhaps we never met
I am grateful to have each of you in my life,
and from the
bottom of my heart I thank you."

Thank You
General Motors and the team at Chevrolet,
Essence Magazine and the team at "Women Who Are Shaping The World" Leadership Summit. 
The Unity Club, Manchester, New Jersey, Lester Glenn Auto Group, Toms River, New Jersey, Macedonia Baptist Church, Lakewood, New Jersey, Love of Jesus Church, Orange, New Jersey,
​ 
Springhill Missionary Baptist Church, Gainesville, Florida First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens, Somerset, New Jersey, Arts High School Alumni Association, Newark, New Jersey

City of East Orange, New Jersey;  Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Employment Training,
The Newark Board of Education, Department of Fine and Performing Arts 
a special thanks to:
Susan L.Taylor 
Carolyn Harden, MJ Peterson, Tom Hassell,
Lillian Wilson, Laura Wright, Sally Wright, 
Margaret Thompson,
​and a host of family and friends

Copyright 2006 all rights reserved

"The tragic events of hurricane Katrina have changed the lives of many;
from deaths of thousands and displaced families,
In the continuous search for loved ones.
We can't ever forget New Orleans, baby."

The music is raw, and he sings from his heart.
Brandyn Slade Kelley is the artist known as
G.U.T.T.A.
​ (Get UP! Time To Achieve.)
A name born out of helping inner city youth. 
He is an aspiring songwriter
 and performer and has penned the words to the song
That may very well be the anthem for our healing.
​
 "Hold on, Hold on
We're gonna rise again
Beignets while the jazz plays
We'll be all right.
Essence to the Mardi Gras
Jazzfest, we'll party you'll
Gonna second line down Canal
We'll be all right
From Bourbon in the Quarter
Out to the East
Uptown down to Michoud
We miss you
Crawfish on the Lakeside
Snowballs made just right
At the Superdome watch the Saints play
And we'll be all right."

​"

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