Green Apple: Thank You Concerts

love absolutely everything about the Green Apple Festival! can't wait to see the D.C. line up I just hope it doesn't get rained out like last year.

im down with what they do, but it looks like a no go on the get down at lincoln park zoo, i was really looking forward to that.

ill have to consider volunteering

im confused. are they still doing the concerts for the fans too?

yeah. i was looking forward to the zoo, just like the past 2 years, but i guess it wont be happening this year

What does this festival actually do to help the environment? I'm not so sure the people who run it are environmentally conscious.

Wow... LA really got dicked. Who the fuck is Cary Brothers?

travis tritt???

Since when did live music fans become such a bunch of whiners? Free music & enviromental volunteering not enough? im just surprised the Twin Cities is still is not a prt of this. "oneman" If you read the story you might find out what they are doing for the enviroment.

Yeah that really sucks no concerts at the zoo in Chicago, those were a lot of fun. If you go to the website, it doesn't even tell you what sort of activity you are volunteering for. I'm going to volunteer, but if the work is ridiculous, just forget about it. The lineups from the past two years blow away a Cracker show, even though I like Cracker. I feel like a dick saying this, but I doubt the turnout is going to be what they expect.

Nevermind, I found out how to pick your volunteering activities. I wonder if I can count this towards my community service.

wow, very dissapointed in this...cracker at the metro???weak...

HNKSCRPIO- I agree with you, although I couldn't attend last year, I remember 2 years ago with Umphreys and bisco with people climbing up trees to be able to see the stage. I think moving the festival from the zoo to either grant or millenium park would make things a bit more enjoyable. Anyhow, if there is no free concert at the zoo, does this still really count as a "Festival"? I mean, it's a good cause, but Cracker has only played about 25 free shows in Chicago over the last 10 years or so, so maybe they arn't the best act to use as a bargining chip to get people to volunteer.

Cracker is still a great band, though.

NYC would be a great time. Saw DBB 2 nights ago and theyve got it just as much as ever. Also, if anyone wants to trade 2 Dead tix for 4/18 for my two Dead tix for 4/19, that would be awesome, cuz I wanna catch that Soulive show.

Yeah definitely Chidodger, I just saw cracker last September for free at the cubby bear. I'm reading the volunteering activities, and they are almost all just doing the Chicago Park Districts jobs for them.

Yonder Mountain String Band ripped it up in golden gate park last year. Bob Weir & Mickey Hart played "Blackbird" & "Friend of the Devil". Brett Dennen opened and purple nugs were everywhere. Great time! I'm going to be in Massachusetts for the Dead shows that weekend this year and I was phyched to see Boston was added to Green Apple. No free concert this stinks. The inconvient truth is as long as there is COAL POWER PLANTS & OIL COMPANIES our enviroment is going to hell in hand basket and no amount of tree planting can change that. CLEAN COAL not even bakeheads would fall for that one.

^Corn ethanol requires too much deforestation and nutrient depletion to be feasible. Wind and solar require way too many resources and land on a massive enough scale to be feasible. Help fuels are cool because it is hemp, but still would require too much deforestation on a massive enough scale. Basically, if Al Gore is heavily invested in it, it is likely a scam. It is all about nuclear. 100% clean, practically no emissions whatsoever. The waste can be re-enriched and recycled over and over if we end the ridiculous legislation that prevents it. And meltdowns are literally impossible with newer technologies. I hope they promote that at these!

I may be wrong but.... I think there is a free major concert with mutliple acts to be announced. I think these are just the concerts for the violenteers. A sorta thank you at the end of the weekend to unwind to. May be wrong tho...

Cary Brothers is a singer songwriter. Good stuff. He has a song "Blue Eyes" on the Garden State soundtrack. Gotta concur about Cracker in Chicago. They play free every couple months it seems like. They shouldve gotten Wilco or Common.

Doesn't really seem to be a thrilling line-up really anywhere...Galactic is nice, the soulive and bassNectar arent too bad either. Doesnt compare to ANY of the acts they had in previous years..Hope the TBA are good. I remember when just Chicago had Umph, Bisco, Big head todd, and the mad proffessor. This year they have Cracker?

Nuclear power isn't the answer. Nuclear waste is currently be stored on-site at the power plants all across this country and plants are running out of room to store it. Which means they need to be moved soon to Yucca Mountain or somewhere. A terrorist blows up a bomb close to those spent nuclear rods it would be almost as bad as a melt down. How do we send the spent rods to Yucca mountain??? By truck...NO, By train...NO, HOW?????

Devner gets Dumpstaphunk, New York gets Deep Banana Blackout and LA gets the Cary Brothers (who?)? What the fuck man?

There's a free concert where I live. But they didn't pick the band I wanted. I'm going to bitch bitch bitch. Why didn't they call ME??? I could have told them the bands I like!!!!!!!!!! This is all a sign of the man holding me down. It's a goddamned government conspiracy to fuck up my day. I'm gonna go poop on the steps of the White House.

oh yeah i agree 100% with just about everything cola21 said. ha.

whatever though i'm down with dumpstaphunk for a good cause

Boston Dan (Bundy), nuclear is, unfortunately at present, the less of two evils -- its emissions pale in comparison to coal-fired. Yes, the waste issue is a distinct problem, but the industry is beginning to work through that. Some plants have arisen which exist for the sole purpose of reconditioning nuclear waste into salvageable rods. [I believe there may be yet another step for "recycling" (i.e., responsible disposal) of said second-tier waste.] Yes, neither coal nor nuclear seem fully enticing, but until every single world citizen has gone to the 110th percentile in terms of their energy-conservation (e.g., bulb-switching, swapping out older/vampiric elec's, water heater strategies..), then governments are in the business of providing amenities for their whiny, lazy, energy-suckling citizens. Renewable energy sources are not only extremely costly, but we do not yet even have the necessary technology at full spread; making everything even more expensive & infrastructurally complex to boot. Don't like nuclear or coal? ..Then make sure to do your part first. It's easy to criticeze; much harder to make everyone around you realize the imperative nature of these changes.