Green Festival
A Green Festival is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday at 6304 E. 58th St. The suggested donation is $10.
The festival will have an all day/all night acoustic jam, a farmers market with locally grown vegetables, vegetarian food provided by Blue Bird Bistro, handmade crafts and other “green” business booths; speakers and workshops on green living and a 7 p.m. concert with Checkered Past, Denise, Brandy and Anita and Steve Gouge.
Part of the purpose is to help send Checkered Past to the Terre Madre gathering promoting “positive globalization” in Italy next month.
For more, see checkeredpast music.com.
•The KC Folk Music group is launching its season series Friday with a house concert by Judy Cook. Cook’s bio says she’s been performing professionally since the early 1990s and has developed a reputation as a solid interpreter of Americana and traditional British songs.
The Cook concert is at 7 p.m. Friday at 3620 Walnut. Tickets cost $12 at the door (teens are half price, and it’s free to those younger than 12). Admission is also $12 at the door for the other concerts, which are Larry Penn (Sept. 12), Bob Bovee and Gail Heil (Oct. 18) and Rik Palieri (Nov. 1).
For more information, see www.crosscurrentsculture.org or call 913-287-3820.
The festival will have an all day/all night acoustic jam, a farmers market with locally grown vegetables, vegetarian food provided by Blue Bird Bistro, handmade crafts and other “green” business booths; speakers and workshops on green living and a 7 p.m. concert with Checkered Past, Denise, Brandy and Anita and Steve Gouge.
Part of the purpose is to help send Checkered Past to the Terre Madre gathering promoting “positive globalization” in Italy next month.
For more, see checkeredpast music.com.
•The KC Folk Music group is launching its season series Friday with a house concert by Judy Cook. Cook’s bio says she’s been performing professionally since the early 1990s and has developed a reputation as a solid interpreter of Americana and traditional British songs.
The Cook concert is at 7 p.m. Friday at 3620 Walnut. Tickets cost $12 at the door (teens are half price, and it’s free to those younger than 12). Admission is also $12 at the door for the other concerts, which are Larry Penn (Sept. 12), Bob Bovee and Gail Heil (Oct. 18) and Rik Palieri (Nov. 1).
For more information, see www.crosscurrentsculture.org or call 913-287-3820.