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Multiple performances bring delightful and thought provoking live music to the Eastsound Waterfront on Earth Day, Sat. April 22. The celebration opens at 10am with an instrumental violin concert by Joel Gamble accompanying a contemplative earth-themed art exhibit in the Emmanuel Parish Hall.
Art and sculpture works by John Berry, Shannon Belthor, Robert Dash, Inese Wescott, Jill Bliss, Glenn Hendrick, Zacharya Leck, Maria Bullock, Eric Morris, George Post and others will be on exhibit inside the Hall and around the labyrinth. Morning violin concert in Parish Hall encourages silent walk through or sit down enjoyment of the visual arts, 10 – 11:30 a.m.
Mid-day, enjoy the Eco-Folk music of Irthlingz with Sharon Abreu and Michael Hurwicz at Emmanuel’s Benson Hall, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. – all ages welcome. Then step inside the chapel for poetry from the Orcas Island Source and Leaping Fool writers group starting at 12:30. Music selected by Katie Gray from her Orcas collection.
Street music is springing up throughout the day, including visual arts and sound along Main Street. In Waterfront Park during the afternoon, a special multi-musician performance, Propaganda for the Sky, brings together artists and performers in loops and layers of live and recorded voice, instrument, and spoken word to reveal newly created sound pieces performed outdoors, under the sky. Coordinated with SOULDARTSPACE by John Raymond Berry.
In the afternoon, a new concert opens in Emmanuel Parish Hall and overflows with transcendent wooden flute and hand pan drum ethereal music with Burke Mulvaney and Josie Dow from 1 – 2:30 p.m. This is a contemplative concert for listening, with indoor seating and art viewers are welcome to walk through the room.
The Poet Laureate Reading follows at 3 p.m. in the Chapel and transitions to a book signing and reception in the Parish Hall. Seats for the readings and advance book orders can be made at https://edaypoetlaureate.eventbrite.com. Full Earth Day activities are at https://sanjuanmakersguild.com/eday23-schedule/.
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