PEI Earth Day Concert

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Celebrate Earth Day on PEI Tuesday, April 22nd at

"Get Down and Dig It!- Music for Mother Earth" 	Concert and Dance

  UPEI Student Centre - 8pm to 2am. 	All Ages- Wet/Dry

Presented by the Environmental Coalition of PEI and the UPEI Student Union

Featuring:
*O Beautiful Gaia - Women's Singing Project
*Silver Frith
*The Brooke Miller Band
*Melissa Harwood
*Modicum
*Windom Earle
*Roy Johnstone & Steve Sharratt
*Katimavik
*Belfast Ceili Band
*Michael Mooney and Faye Pound
and more!

+ Drum/Jam Session Warm-up at 7pm

Admission: $5 + donations welcomed!

For more info call Tony Reddin at 675-4093 or David MacKay at 569-2215, or 
check the website www.ecopei.ca
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O Beautiful Gaia is a choir and recording project with special 
character.  Three groups will work in connection with one another, yet each 
will form, formulate, and record in their place. Each will, within their 
own reality, bring forth vision and process. Each will record half a CD of 
music. This is a project of knowing our earth and rooting with our 
particular land ­ it is study, music, ritual, reflection, silence. Some 
among us may also give expression in other creative forms ~ poetry, 
writing, visual arts. Atlantic Canada will be one of the three groups 
recording for this project. It includes a group from Nova Scotia and a 
group from PEI.
Gradually the idea is taking form that Earth is common ground and that land 
must be held in safekeeping for the generations to come. As an integral 
part of this project we will intentionally join with conservancy groups to 
preserve and protect our common heritage.
One of the pieces that we perform is The Longing Series; written by Carolyn 
McDade in three parts. The first, I Sing the Longing, is the singing of 
love of land, love of place, love of this life, where we put our feet down 
every day, the earth beneath our feet.  The second part is the chanting of 
some of the endangered species of this and other regions. The third part is 
a prayer, a wish..for these endangerd, those we are losing, for them to 
continue on... We hope to have some slides which will play as we sing the 
endangered so all can see who they are.

For More Information see Web 
Page:  http://www.gis.net/~surtsey/mcdade/gaia-index.html
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Modicum consists of Nick Gauthier on vocals/guitar, Rodney Perry on 
vocals/bass, Jeremy Gallant on drums/keys and Matt Campbell on vocals and 
guitar. Over the last six months the band has built a large repertoire of 
covers and their own originals.

  On Wednesday, March 12th, Modicum headed to a recording studio in Slemon 
Park with producer David Rashed, formerly of Haywire. They re-recorded the 
famous tune, "War, What is it Good for?" made popular by soul artist, Edwin 
Starr during the Vietnam war. Saturday March 15th saw the live premier of 
the song at the Peace Rally in Charlottetown.

The new Rock n' Roll version of the song was recorded in both French and 
English and was distributed across the world. German and Italian versions 
of the song are currently in the works. MP3s can also be purchased online 
at their website www.modicum.ca. All proceeds are being donated to the 
noteworthy organization WarChild, helping children affected by wars 
everywhere. The band will be playing the WarChild fundraiser at Bluefield 
High School April 17th.

Modicum has been featured in The Guardian, CBC Radio, Compass, and Live at 
Five; and the 'song' is in current rotation on Magic 93, and many other 
radio stations.

If you would like to book or contact the band, call Jeremy Gallant at 368-2755.
Check out Modicum at local venues and bars all across PEI.
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