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Family Music & Activities At The WBOS Earth Day Festival
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| Dates: | Saturday, May 27, 2006 |
| In/Outdoor: | Outdoor |
| Cost: | Free |
| Category: | Music & Concerts |
This free event will take place at the Hatch Shell on the Esplanade along the Charles River in Boston. The Massachusetts WIC/Family Nutrition Program will present a wide variety of musical acts and entertainment on the family stage through the day, including Girl Authority, SteveSongs, Ben Rudnick and Friends, Magician Peter Boie and Jake Brennan.
FoodPlay, an Emmy Award-winning live theater show that combines fantastic feats of juggling, captivating characters, music, magic, and audience participation with motivating health messages to help children take charge of growing up healthy and fit, will also perform from the stage.
The expanded family area will also feature interactive activities for children from face painting, sponsored by the Shriners Burns Hospital for Children, to creating art with recycled materials.
Activities in the Family area will begin at 10:00 a.m.
Travelling Super Mercado
Whole Foods Market and the Boston Children’s Museum will debut a traveling exhibit of the Museums Super Mercado, the wildly popular Spanish language grocery store exhibit.
The 100 square foot exhibit will offer an organic twist to its fruit and veggie selection featuring farm to store illustrations. Children will be able to play shop the exhibit with little baskets choosing from toy fruits and veggies to actual “play” boxes of Whole Foods Market’s 365 brand products. The check out register, as in the real exhibit at the museum, is expected to be a big hit with the kids!
In addition to activities in the family area, The WBOS EarthFest will also feature nearly 100 booths offering educational displays, exhibits and food sampling. The booths will be staffed by event sponsors and local environmental and non-profit organizations, including the Charles River Watershed Association, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Greyhound Friends, Sierra Club, Amnesty International and Island Alliance.
Mansfield High School’s Environmental Issues class will showcase a school bus that has been transformed into an all-natural bio-diesel bus. The bus is the result of research conducted by the class on how automobiles affect the environment and cause conflict. Mansfield High School is the first public school ever to convert a school bus into a bio-diesel bus.
Girl Authority is a local pop singing group made up of nine girlfriends between the ages of 8 and 13. An energetic and tightly knit unit, the girls are the latest singing sensation that is part of a trend of music sung by and for kids. Their self-titled national debut CD, was released on April 4 by Rounder Records. Ben Rudnick and Friends is known for playing family friendly music featuring instantly hum-able original songs and fun spins on well-known traditional material. Their award winning recordings contain a unique acoustic sound ranging from light folk to bluegrass, calypso, and rock. SteveSongs blends participatory songs, clever stories and great melodies into an experience that leads young listeners on a musical journey. The stage performances will be rounded-out with the rockabilly music of Jake Brennan and a thrilling performance from magician Peter Boie.
The WBOS EarthFest, the biggest FREE radio station concert in the country, is expected to draw more than 100,000 fans for a day of music, food, and family fun. The WBOS EarthFest is produced in conjunction with the Department of Conservation and Recreation and sponsored by Whole Foods Markets.
Getting There
WBOS recommends festival-goers take the T to the Hatch Shell. Take the Green Line to Arlington Street or take the Red Line to Charles Street / MGH. For more details, visit the MBTA website @ www.mbta.com. For more information on the 13th Annual WBOS EarthFest listen to 92.9FM, visit www.WBOS.com or call the WBOS Studio Line at 617-931-1111.
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