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Nashville's Earth Day Festival

When

Saturday April 19 at 11am to dusk

Details

Lightning 100’s Team Green is once again the sponsor and organizer of the seventh annual Nashville Earth Day Festival at Centennial Park! This year’s theme is Local Living for Global Change – It All Starts with ME! We will have interactive entertainment, live music, healthy food, and over 100 environmental organizations. For more details on Earth Day, go to Nashville Earth Day.

Musical Line-Up

2:05-2:35 Five Star Iris
Five Star Iris’s anthemic first single “Let It All Out” is a showcase for the Atlanta-based quartet’s soulful rock melodies, sharp songwriting and searching lyrics. Winner of the prestigious UK Songwriting Contest, the song has been played over 200 times at KENZ in Salt Lake City and is now being picked up in other markets as well, where Best Buy is supporting the band’s sales efforts. They recently returned from a 25-day tour of the Middle East, including Iraq, where they performed for U.S. servicemen & women. Together for 4 years, the band continues to expand its fan base through constant touring because connecting with fans is the most important thing to them, and they do that best “live”. Amazing both electric and acoustic, a Five Star Iris set delivers music that is positive and uplifting. They’ve opened for Hinder, Switchfoot, Fuel, and Collective Soul.

2:50-3:25 Sam & Ruby
1999…independently submersed in the music scene in Nashville, before words were ever exchanged, Sam and Ruby knew someday they would record a project together. Ruby spent her time hopping ponds with her Top 5 charted pop album, Smoke and Honey (Polydor UK), while Sam was holding down the fort in Nashville and NYC, with his funky groovy-music-making self. However, these musical soulmates could not deny their destiny, and 7 years later the project began. One may initially wonder, “How can a boy from Green Bay, Wisconsin and a girl born in Ghana, West Africa find kindred spirits within each other?”. Once you hear it, you won’t wonder anymore… Add to that, their voices when recorded are often mistaken for each other’s. Destined for a higher purpose, Sam and Ruby continue to give to people what has been given to them… love, understanding, forgiveness and hope….music.

3:40-4:20 Jen Foster
Jen Foster wants you to hear her music. Whether she’s singing about the time her lover moved out and took everything she owned in “Taking Bob Dylan” – or about our jaded American culture in “Closer to Nowhere” – she has something she needs to share with you.
An award-winning singer/songwriter who regularly sells out shows all over the country, Jen draws a devoted following to her live shows, though her largest fan base resides in the southeast. Her bond with fans creates a captive audience, anxious to hear her stories and take in her unique sense of humor. Foster always delivers, making her audience laugh, even if it’s at her own expense.

4:45-5:30 – JYPSI
There’s Broadway, and there’s off-Broadway; there’s off the rack, and there’s way, way off the rack, where attitude, fashion and fun collide into an explosion of color and personal expression that finds a singular voice in Jypsi, a musical experience delivered via four extraordinary individuals ranging in age from 16-26. Siblings who grew up playing music on the road, the three-woman, one-man assemblage is so much more than a double-take-inspiring blast of visual style, they’re an unfabricated, 21st century reflection of past and present, where the spirit of youth meets the soul of country to create something GENUINE – at once true to their distinct personalities, true to their musical lineage, and true to the music they’re defining as their own.
Jypsi is the embodiment of their name: the minstrel spirit, the wanderlust, the tightly woven family bonds, the individuality, and a striking sense of fashion and selfexpression. Jypsi is a reverence for history while remaining ultra-contemporary. Jypsi is about feeling, about energy, about possibility… on the edge and over the top. Jypsi is now.

5:50-7:15 Raul Malo
Born in Miami of Cuban parents, Malo is best known as the founder and frontman of Grammy-winning, multi-platinum band the Mavericks—well named considering the bandleader’s genre-spanning sensibility. Formed in 1990, the Mavericks were one of the decade’s biggest country bands, recording seven albums, including their 1994 breakthrough, ‘What a Crying Shame,’ and twice being named Top Vocal Group by the Country Music Association. The Mavericks haven’t toured since 2001, but the bandmembers remain close.

In 2001, Malo released his first solo album, ‘Today,’ a seamless blend of country and his Cuban roots, following it up five years later with ‘You’re Only Lonely.’ He has also recorded two albums with the Latin-rock supergroup Los Super Seven, and continues to conduct a heavy touring schedule. The latest collection is the third solo outing from a one-of-a-kind artist whose powerful voice Entertainment Weekly has described as “a force of nature.”

Volunteer for Team Green

We need Team Greeners to volunteer at our very popular Team Green booth to talk to Earth Day participants all about our organization. To volunteer, please contact Suzanne Angele

Bike Parking at Earth Day

Ride your bike to the Earth Day Festival…after all, it is Earth Day and what responsible choice to use your own power to get there on a beautiful spring day! FREE to park your bicycle.

More details

If you’re looking for ideas on how to better care for the planet, especially right here in Middle Tennessee, head to the seventh annual Nashville Earth Day Festival Saturday, April 19, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Centennial Park.

This year’s festival, themed “Local Living for Global Change – It All Starts with Me,” will feature dozens of informational exhibits, interactive booths and family-friendly activities aimed at educating Middle Tennesseans about protecting the environment.
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And live music, including headliner Raul Malo, will add to the festive environment. Music will begin at 2 p.m. and continue through 7 p.m.

“The Earth Day committee is proud to have the opportunity to present an entertaining and informative celebration,” Jennifer Hagan-Dier, Nashville Earth Day Festival committee chairwoman, said in a prepared statement.
Event will be ‘carbon neutral’

The event, which will feature food from local farmers and chefs, will also be a carbon neutral event. Vanderbilt University graduate students are calculating the amount of carbon that will be emitted during the festival, and organizers will purchase green power to offset the carbon footprint.

In addition, a mobile solar panel unit will power all the food vendors in an environmentally friendly way—another effort to reduce the festival’s carbon footprint. Anyone attending can minimize emissions on Earth Day by riding a bike or taking public transportation to the event. Plenty of bicycle parking will be available.

Recycling bins for paper and plastic also will be dispersed throughout Centennial Park, and atendees can bring used ink cartridges and school supplies to recycle.

TennesseeGreen.com is one of many sponsors of this year’s Earth Day celebration.

Other sponsors include: Art Dude Creative, BFI/Allied Waste, FedEx Kinko’s, Lightning 100, McNeely Pigott & Fox, Metro Public Works, Metro Beautification and Environment Commission, Rivergate Recycling, Team Green, Whole Foods, Hugh Bennett Productions, LP Building Products, Metro Parks and Recreation, Metro Water Services, Stringfellow, Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Tennessee Department of Revenue, Tennessee Department of Transportation, Tennessee Environmental Council, Wild Oats, Beaman Automotive, Graffiti Indoor Advertising, Metro Public Health Department and Nashville Farmer’s Market.