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Kevin Frieson at the Earth Day 2005 Music Festival
ATHENS - Music ruled and love was offered as the sustaining back-beat during the 2005 Earth Day festival here at Concord University.
Experimental folk artist Ron Peronne kicked off the event belting lyrics weaved with commentary on the importance of saving our forests.
There are many reasons to kill a tree in the kangaroo court of facts, he said.
Shayar And Kroo shall Force used the reggae genre inviting everyone to come together and make it work. Save the mountains. Save the birds. Give thanks to the Lord, they sang.
Folk Rock artist Nate Clendenen (of the Nate Clendenen Band) said his flag flies for freedom. He sang of a fear that the world is running itself straight into the ground (environmentally speaking).
The musical messages were underscored by a short lecture from West Virginia University Professor Jim Kotcon.
Encouraging involvement 365 days a year, Kotcon put on his Sierra Club cap in urging the crowd to insist that lawmakers live up to their responsibility to protect the environment, beginning with enforcement of the Clean Air Act.
When you can't breath, nothing else matters, he said. The levels of identified pollutants exceeds EPA standards in most West Virginia communities, mainly because the state has so many coal-fired power plants. One-hundred additional coal fired power plants are being proposed in the United States right now including six more in West Virginia, Kotcon said.
While it probably will not destroy the planet Earth in out lifetime, global warming is real and very serious problem, the Sierra Club member added.
Get involved. Don't count on someone else to do it for you, Kotcon said, before outlining a six point plan for promoting change:
1) Know the legislative process;
2) Show up (attend meetings);
3) Do your homework (know the subject you are bringing to your representatives);
4) Build a base of support (get together);
5) Apply endless pressure; and
6) Get political (elect good representatives).
Following Kotcon's remarks, Lori McKinney of Option 22 continued the delivery of messages trough lyrics. She challenged the world to make it right, to find a way out...
The event's feature attraction, The Kevin Frieson Ensemble (a new jazz/trip hop band featuring bass guitar, drums, sax/flute, and six string guitar), needed no lyrics to deliver its message. Their musical offering was purely instrumental, a stunning blend of jazz with components of rock.
Spokesperson Robert Blankenship said the aim of Llynium Entertainment (the event organizer) is unity through music.
The Kevin Frieson Ensemble delivered a fitting finale to the Earth Day 2005 Music Festival.
We can change the world through music, Blankenship said.
Earth Day 2005 Music Festival Photos
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