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Summer 2009 PRESS RELEASE <<<
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Gabe
Dominguez
SHAKE YOUR PEACE!
(415)
572-9625
syp@shakeyourpeace.com
www.ShakeYourPeace.com
Utahpian Society
Velorutionary
Tour Cultivates Sustainable Culture in the Desert
This May 4-16th 2009, if you see an
unusually large number of cyclists towing a mountain of audio equipment
down the roads of Utah, smiles on their faces and sweat on their
brow, know that you may have just gotten a glimpse into the future of Utah!
It's The Utahpia NOW! Tour: a
hardy bunch of Utah's leaders in sustainability, a San Francisco-based
rock band, and a legion of strong-legged fans, pedaling from Logan to
Provo presenting 20 human-powered shows everywhere from indie-rock clubs, to high school assemblies, to a headlining slot at Salt Lake City's Live Green Festival. Their goal is to spread the vision of a sustainable and utopian Utah- a Utahpia - and to get Utahan's activated in the efforts to make the vision a reality.
The tour also marks the 4th annual rock & roll bicycle tour of Utah for sustainable music pioneers: SHAKE YOUR PEACE!, whose bandleader Gabe Dominguez grew up in Orem, UT.
What makes 'sustainable music' sustainable? Hint: It's not
how it rocks, it's how it rolls.
Not only touring on bicycles without the aid
of a support van, the band also powers their sound equipment
by
having an audience member pedal their bikes in-place (made
stationary with special kickstands) at the shows, creating
electricity by harnessing the momentum of the free-spinning back
wheel. In addition, SHAKE YOUR PEACE! puts no
copyright
on their music (anti-copyright/ pro-stewardship to be exact) and no
prices on their CD's and t-shirts, in order to encourage the
audience to be voluntary stewards of not only the
band's
unprotected music and merchandise, but of unprotected nature.
“Nothing's for sale, and nothing's for free,” says a sign on the
merch table next to a stack of CD's.
“Sustainable music is about
expanding the definition of what it means to make harmony for
a
living – to be a musician. Our goal is to create harmony
onstage and offstage,” explains Dominguez. The paradigm has
been growing in popularity throughout Northern California –
exemplified by 100% human-powered events such as The
San
Francisco Bicycle Music Festival
(www.BicycleMusicFestival.com).
The
varied cast of supporting act: Utahpia 2009!, which includes
leaders
from organizations as diverse as TreeUtah, Food Not Bombs, and BYU Law
School, will also blur the line between onstage and off as
they
invite the audience to dialogue with them further after shows,
to
take home materials about their organization, and to get
involved
in volunteer opportunities.
The Utahpia NOW! Tour encourages the
public to
jump on their bikes and pedal along with them! For
the tour schedule and more, check
out SHAKE YOUR PEACE!'s wind-powered website: www.ShakeYourPeace.com.
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This
press release, and
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