America’s Largest Earth Day Celebration: Green Apple Festival
America’s largest Earth Day celebration (so they say) is taking place in cities throughout the country once again this year. The Green Apple Festival is a small music fest held in 8 cities on April 18-20. The way that most of them works is that there are bands at small venues on Friday and Saturday with a large free concert on Sunday, April 20. You’ll notice that there are a lot of jam bands – so if that’s your scene – check it out.
- Washington DC – National Mall – Jordin Sparks, The Roots & Friend featuring Doug E Fresh, Ne-Yo, Talib Kwelli, will.i.am, and more. O.A.R. acoustic set, Gov’t Mule, Thievery Corporation, Toots & The Maytals, Warren Haynes, Umphrey’s McGee
- New York City - Central Park – Ricky Skaggs, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, The Bacon Brothers
- Miami – Bicentennial Park – Menudo (yes – Menudo!), Arrested Development (the band, not the show), Baby Loves Salsa
- Chicago – Lincoln Park Zoo – Bill Kreutzmann (Grateful Dead), Oteil Burbridge (Allman Brothers), Scott Murawski (Max Creek), Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Meshell Ndegeocello, Chicago Afrobeat Project
- Denver – City Park – The Neville Brothers, The Benevento/Russo Duo, Rose Hill Drive
- Dallas - Fair Park – Los Lonely Boys, Martin Sexton, Junior Brown
- Los Angeles – Santa Monica Pier – Taj Mahal & Friends, Ziggy Marley, Juliette and the Licks (Juliette Lewis’s band), School of Rock All-Stars
- San Francisco – Golden Gate Park – Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead), Yonder Mountain String Band (great bluegrass), Brett Dennen (also very fun music)
The Green Apple Festival is produced with a minimal carbon footprint. They have a goal of zero waste and are as paperless as possible. Some other initiatives are: use of bio-diesel generators, organic cotton staff shirts, organic food, and encouraging patrons to take public transportation to the events. They are also working with NativeEnergy to offset their carbon emissions.
This concert series sounds great. Let’s hope they have recycling bins and people pick up after themselves! Would love to see how they incorporate organic food!
[...] The Green Apple Festival will be held in eight U.S. cities – D.C., N.Y.C., Miami, Chicago, Denver, Dallas, L.A., and San Francisco. Check out the details here at screamtobegreen. [...]
Cool, now I know which concert my son went to in Washington DC.
Unfortunately Philadelphia is not on the list of cities featuring a Green Apple Concert.
I would be really interested to see how the organizers actually implement their minimal carbon footprint policy ?
Jason did you go to the Chicago Green Apple Festival?
If so, what did you observe in terms of practices to minimize carbon footprint ?