Although AVMs can develop in many different sites, those located in the brain or spinal cord -- the two parts of the central nervous system -- can have especially widespread effects on the body. AVMs of the brain or spinal cord (neurological AVMs) are believed to affect approximately 300,000 Americans.
2009's Line-up and Festival Details. 2016 CONGO SQUARE NEW WORLD RHYTHMS FESTIVAL. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation celebrates the music and culture of the African diaspora at the eighth annual Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival, March 19-20, in Armstrong Park.
President Obama Celebrates Jazz at the White House. More ways to share... President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are celebrating International Jazz Day a day early with a concert at the White House. Borrowing a line from trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie, who ran for president in 1964, Obama says he intends to turn the White House into the Blues House with Friday night's concert. Obama says he first obtained an appreciation of jazz when a father he barely knew came to visit him for about a month in Honolulu.