Ocean Revolution On World Ocean Day

Written by Tim Dykman

Thursday, 11 May 2006 20:34

World Ocean Day Music in Santa Cruz, Ca. What: Ocean Revolution Benefit Concert and Family Event When: Saturday, June 10, 2006; benefit concert, 8 p.m.; family event, 2 to 4 p.m. Where: The Attic, 931 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, California Cost: Benefit concert, $20; family event, free. Contact: (831) 426-0337 or www.oceanrevolution.org Santa Cruz, CA--Think what might have happened if Mexican Revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata had been a surfer.  Instead of land reforms, he might have fought for ocean conversation, and instead of gun battles, he might have organized a benefit concert like the one planned for June 10 in celebration of World Oceans’ Day.  To inspire a new brand of revolutionaries, Ocean Revolution, Save the Waves Coalition, and the Surfrider Foundation’s Santa Cruz Chapter are banding together to host the second annual Ocean Revolution Benefit Concert at The Attic on Saturday, June 10. Conservation International, World Wildlife Fund, NRDC, I.U.C.N. and MCBI and Ocean Revolution are featuring this concert as part of a bicoastal World Ocean Day Celebration that starts on June 7th, 2006 with the awarding of the Global Conservation Award and Ocean Revolution's Native Oceans Award in Washington D.C. The Santa Cruz benefit concert, which starts at 8 p.m. June 10th, will feature musical guests Universal Language, Ted Lennon, and Lane Murchison, multi-media presentations, and a raffle.  For the younger set, a daytime event from 2 to 4 p.m. will feature live music by Lane Murchison and Huna Wai, performances by the Hula School of Santa Cruz, and an array of children’s games and activities.  Tickets for the evening benefit concert are $20 and are available at The Attic, Streetlight Records, and www.ticketweb.com.  The daytime family event is free.  Held in conjunction with the 14th annual World Oceans’ Day, the Ocean Revolution benefit concert and family event are designed to raise awareness of critical ocean issues, empower youth, and share solutions for healthy oceans.  All proceeds from the event will support Saves the Waves and Ocean Revolution’s international ocean conservation programs. About the Performers: Universal Language is a musical melting pot fusing Latin and world grooves to create infectious, high-energy dance music.  A mix of hot Latin percussion, Cuban tres, double bass, Andean Charango, and Spanish guitar drives their fusion-inspired dance grooves.  With roots in Mexico, Israel, Cuba, Italy, and California, Universal Language brings a pan-cultural vision of unity through music.   Often compared with Jack Johnson, Ted Lennon’s music exudes the laid-back California surf culture of his youth.  His blend of hushed vocals and acoustic guitar radiates a warm and intimate bluesy-folk sound.  His father provides subtle accompaniment on ukulele, guitar, and xylophone.  Lane Murchison is an accomplished, multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter leading a dual life.  By day, he performs wry folk music for kids and teaches music in private schools.  By night, he rocks out with his two bands at grown-up venues ranging from roadhouses to the Fillmore.  Lane and the Badass Chickenbones showcases his soulful lyrics, blending rock with a bit of bluegrass.  He also plays bass for Ape, a wacky exotica band led by tiki-carving frontman Al Evans. With ‘ukeleles, bass, and slack-key guitars, Huna Wai brings the music of the Hawaiian islands to the mainland.  The band takes their name from the Hawaiian phrase meaning a drop of water in a spray or mist, signifying the band’s connection to Hawaii. Dancers from the Hula School of Santa Cruz will perform with Huna Wai, sharing traditional Hawaiian dance, culture, and aloha.  The Hula School of Santa Cruz is directed by kumu hula and native Hawaiian Leolani Lowry.  About Save the Waves Coalition: Save the Waves is an environmental coalition with the goal of protecting and preserving the world’s best surf spots and to educate the public about their value.  www.savesthewaves.org. About Surfrider Foundation: Surfrider Foundation is an environmental organization dedicated to the protection of the world's oceans, waves, and beaches through conservation, activism, research, and education.  www.surfrider.org. Ocean Revolution to announce 2006 Native Oceans Award in Washington D.C.  Conservation International, WWF, NRDC, MCBI, IUCN and Ocean Revolution will hold a press conference and cermony on June 7th, 2006. For information on how to attend click here. Candidates for The Ocean Revolution Native Oceans Award are chosen annually from coastal communities where the sea has great economic, cultural and spiritual significance.   The award recognizes a person, or a group, that has made a significant contribution toward a sustainable future for their community through preserving and nurturing relationships with the sea, collaborating globally, and working to fortify the values and traditions necessary for maintaining their cultural identity. The Seri Indians have long been stewards to a unique array of marine and coastal biodiversity in the Northern Sonora and Central Gulf regions of Mexico. They live in a place that is both shockingly harsh and extraordinarily rich. Grupo Tortuguero Comcåac is the marine component of a community-wide plan created by a team of Seri Indian elders and youth that uses traditional teaching and modern science to respond to 21st Century social, economic, cultural, political and environmental pressures. Beginning with an awareness that their traditional lifestyle and the environment are inseparable, they have established autonomous and collaborative monitoring and enforcement practices through which they are able to create and effectively maintain timely and restricted access to their commercial fisheries and to shut out outsiders unwilling to comply. At the same time they have reached out to the broader conservation community sharing their knowledge and seeking advice on using new technologies to implement their plan of protection. Most importantly they serve as the bridge between the traditional knowledge that provided the strength to defend their territorial, cultural and environmental integrity in the past and the educational needs of a younger generation that must tackle a precarious economic, environmental, political and cultural situation in the future. In presenting this award we honor their success in working to maintain their spiritual and cultural relationship with their habitat and adapt to the political and economic forces they face with practical management plans that elevate this relationship. Most of all we celebrate and support their commitment to empower themselves and to stand as a model of how communities can add the natural world to their protected family. Ocean Revolution Concert in Mexico celebrates cultural tradition and raises money for ocean conservation. In March 2006 students and teachers of the Applied Indigenous Studies program at NAU and Ocean Revolution joined with the Navajo band Blackfire and the Seri band Hamåc Cajim in Punta Chueca, Mexico for a concert of modern and traditional song and dance. Ocean Revolution Concerts celebrate and involve youth in our relationship to the sea.  Proceeds from the concert are being used to continue the Seri’s international sea turtle monitoring project. < Prev   Next >