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About Me:: Green Festival & Acoustic All-Day/All Night Jam
with Concert by Checkered Past
Saturday, September 6
Opens at 2 PM
Green Fest with Environmental speakers/workshops, Farmer's Market
including Arts/Crafts & Green Businesses
Acoustic Jam ALL DAY/ALL NIGHT until the musicians wear out!
Checkered Past Concert at 7 PM (with continued Jam After)

Outside Stage at Dave Lizor's Jammin' Place
6304 E 58th St., KCMO (Just West of 435 and Eastwood Trafficway)
See http://www.checkeredpastmusic.com/ for directions and advance tickets
Suggested donation $10 or more -- and WORTH it!

Blue Bird Bistro and Boulevard Beer!

"Green" meets BBQ and Down Home Music!

Bring your fiddle, banjo, mandolin or guitar (and your folding chair) and join the fun! Stroll our Farmer's Market and pick up locally grown fresh veggies, handmade crafts and see what the latest in Green Business has to offer. Three stages will be used to present lots of ideas about what YOU can do to "Go Green," interspersed with fine down-home jammin' all day and into the night.

Current list of speakers: Daniel Dermitzel for KC Center for Urban Agriculture, Stu Shafer for JCCC's new Entrepreneurial Sustainable Farming Program, Maureen Veto-Slater for Raw Food Liberation, Steve Mann for Squash Blossoms Food Co-op, Kristin Riott for Bridging the Gap and KC Climate Protectors, Richard Mabion for Building a Sustainable Earth Community, Sarah Shmigelsky for KC Healthy Kids - Food Policy Initiative, Toby Grotz for Food Not Lawns, Diana Endicott for Good Natured Family Farms, Stan Slaughter (The Eco-Troubadour) with composting tips and song, Mike O'Connell from the Hayes Company, (to give energy-saving home weatherizing tips), Eric Kjelshus (with common sense green ideas for your home), Mike Walker and Martha Haehl with a jamming seminar. The Song Writer's Circle will join us with a round robin of eco-friendly songs. We'll also have workshops in How to Build a Solar Cooker and lots more!

Donations are being used to send the band Checkered Past to this year's Terra Madre Conference, where they will perform and attend workshops with over 7000 other food producers, cooks, restaurateurs, academics and environmentalists to discuss the challenges shared by small-scale, sustainable food producers from all seven continents -- including Antarctica. Terra Madre, is a global forum for sharing traditional knowledge and solutions to the environmental and social damage brought about by prevailing modes of food production.

For info about Terra Madre, directions to the event or more information about how to purchase tickets: http://www.checkeredpastmusic.com

Specific inquires -- please email: CheckeredPastEvents@Gmail.com

Terra Madre – Heartland Voice is a project of CrossCurrents Culture, a 501c3 corporation. Donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Sponsors for the Green Festival and Acoustic Jam include: Boulevard Beer, Blue Bird Bistro, FolkJam.org, and Cross Currents.

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