The Green Strum Project returns to this year’s Festival!
Explore the connections between sustainability and music with Kelly and Ryan of the Green Strum – a project of 88.1 KDHX at this year’s Festival. Green Strum was formed by Kelly Wells and Ryan Spearman to explore the connections between sustainability and the arts in St. Louis while raising awareness of the importance of healthy, local economy through events, educational workshops and musical performances. At this year’s Festival, you can meet them and learn how to make your own instruments out of found objects!
Green Strum demonstrations at the Festival.
The Green Strum Project booth is located across from the Muny Box Office, near the Festival Information booth. Green Strum will be hosting instrument building demonstrations throughout the day, so stop by and by inspired.
Ryan Spearman, Kelly Wells, and Quentin Coe, a.k.a. the Green Strum Band, perform using instruments made from re-purposed objects on the Cafe Stage at the 2012 Festival.
At 1pm, the Green Strum Band Scramble will begin with the announcement of the band groups on the Cafe Stage. Stick around to hear Ryan, Kelly and the Green Strum Band perform, and witness the fun and folly of the Band Scramble, at 4:00pm on the Cafe Stage.
Join in the Green Strum Band Scramble.
The Green Strum Band Scramble contest is a creative way to introduce musicians and audiences to the concept of sustainability in the arts. The contest is a platform for music lovers to meet, have a whole lot of fun, and entertain some Festival-goers in the process.
The band scramble works as follows:
Participants’ names are drawn from a hat to randomly form bands. The newly-formed bands will have the afternoon to construct at least one instrument from provided reclaimed materials, decide on a band name and to arrange and rehearse one song for the contest that evening.
The competing bands will be judged on creativity, environmental impact, audience response, and musicality.
