There have been a couple of interesting meetings of young (high-school-age) mostly-black music students from N.O. with mostly-white counterparts up in the mountains of western North Carolina. If 'm not mistaken, this project was initiated by faculty at NOCCA (New Orleans something-or-other for the Creative Arts), a nationally recognized high school for the performing and fine arts that has produced a lot of now-famous jazz musicians and a few prominent actors, plus plenty of less-famous classical musicians, dancers, painters, and writers.

At least one CD has resulted from this "BlueBrass" project. The Smokey-Mountain kids are mostly bluegrass pickers and the Orleanians are mostly brass-band players. The recording is commerically available and therefore is probably searchable on the Net under the title "Bluebrass."

An article I read not long ago in the local Gambit Weekly noted that both groups of kids started out completely unfamiliar with each other's respective musical genres, but that once they started playing, they discovered plenty of common ground and then inspired each other to explore entirely new directions.