Oh, My Nola
Oh, My NOLA is an album from Harry Connick Jr. with his big band. The album was released in 2007, and contains well-known songs associated with New Orleans, as well as 4 new songs composed by Connick, who sings and plays the piano, conducts, arranges and orchestrates the album. A portion of the royalties of "Oh, My NOLA" will be donated to Musicians' Village in New Orleans. He was honored with a "Strength and Spirit Award" from "Redbook" magazine in October 2006, for contributing proceeds from various music sales, and for his work on the Musicians ' Village. The album was released at the same day as his big band instrumental album "Chanson du Vieux Carre". The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums, and at #11 on the "Billboard" 200, with 44,000 copies sold. A concert tour, the My New Orleans Tour, started on February 23, 2007 in North America, went on to Europe, and continued to Asia and Australia in 2008.