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Tonight, Blue Nile hosts “Dear NOLA: A Concert for New Orleans” (more on the Dear NOLA show here), a benefit hosted by national music organizations Air Traffic Control and the Future of Music Coalition.

The lineup includes Vernon Reid, along with DJ Spooky/That Subliminal Kid, Grammy-nominated Helen Bruner + Terry Jones, Jenny Toomey and Kristin Thomson of Tsunami, M1 of Dead Prez, Mirah, Sage Francis, Shawn King of DeVotchKa, Sunpie Barnes, Zach Rogue of Rogue Wave, along with Sunpie Barnes and Bonerama, which serves as the house band for many of the performances. Also on the bill is Cody ChesnuTT, seen here in his video for “Look Good in Leather.”

Of the show, Craig Klein writes in a blog post:
Its always an amazing group of musicians and Mark, Greg and I have been Bonerizing on arrangements for some of them. It takes a lot of work to put it all together with musicians we have only talked to online and listened to the music they sent us, but after its said and done, we have made new friends and got to play some amazing music.

OffBeat, ATC and FMC are pleased to offer a pair of tickets to tonight’s show to the first person the email [email protected] with the name of the band Vernon Reid played in when he had a hit with “Cult of Personality.”