June 28, 2012 — For Immediate Release – For More Information, Contact Eric Fried at 214-4548
Green, Red, White and Blue Party July 4 at Avogadro’s Number
FORT COLLINS, CO – The annual Green, Red, White and Blue Party – the best 4 th of July party in the Fort – featuring great local music, food, $1 microbrews, and the presentation of the 2012 Green Giant Awards, gets rolling at 3 pm in the cool back patio at Avogadro’s Number, 605 S. Mason Street, Fort Collins. Suggested donation of $5 benefits the Poudre Valley Green Party. The party ends at 7ish, allowing plenty of time to get to the City Park evening fireworks.
This year’s musical lineup features Banjo Sam, Joe Kissell, Barbara Clark, Murder for Hire and Faucets on Fire.
Banjo Sam, who performs Oldies Rock, Folk, original music & Comedy, has played professionally since age 16. He has performed in 40 states and six countries. He is currently living in Reno finishing the theme song for a TV pilot.
Joe Kissell and Barbara Clark are local singer/songwriters who have delighted audiences for years with their beautiful music and passionate lyrics.
In his review of Kissell’s debut CD “Little Box” in Riff Music Magazine, Tim Van Schmidt said “Kissell emerges from the fertile Fort Collins music scene with a distinctive sound and strong original material,” calling his music “authentic, heartfelt… American roots music that thrives with honesty and life-affirming passion.”
With her musical roots in the Texas hill country, where she performed in local venues as well as the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas, Barbara Clark’s work is meaty and gutsy – tender and direct. “One of the most beautiful voices, and some of the best songwriting in Austin, Clark sounds like an angel with a confiding undertone that, quite frankly, ravishes my ears,” states Third Coast Music Magazine’s John Conquest.
Faucets On Fire is an experimental Rock/Hard Rock instrumental band with 4 members and an anti-fracking agenda. Murder For Profit is a Punk Band with 5 members and a strong distaste for the military and factory farming industrial complexes.
The winners of the 2012 Green Giant Awards are:
Ø Hammer Time! Projects, “a community-powered collection of resources for people to responsibly create and obtain what they need. We promote creativity, ecological health, participatory decision making, self-determination, alternative forms of exchange, and more meaningful connections with the things we use as well as with each other.” (from www.hammertimeprojects.org )
Ø Dr. Rick Price, for 40 years of bicycle advocacy that has helped turn Fort Collins into one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the United States. A professional geographer and long-time CSU Study Abroad Advisor, Rick co-founded Experience Plus Bicycle Tours, Bike Fort Collins and the Fort Collins Bike Library, and chaired the city’s Bicycle Advisory Committee. Fittingly, Dr. Price is currently finishing up his 40 th anniversary bicycle tour of Italy.
Ø John Peacock , for his decades of tireless support for passenger rail and train travel as part of a comprehensive transportation solution for Colorado, especially the Front Range.
Ø Linda Mahan , an active and proud member of the local League of Women Voters, for consistently working on issues such as poverty, affordable housing, single payer health care and many others.
Green Giant Awards are given to individuals or organizations in our community who embody the 10 Key Values of the Green Party: Ecological Wisdom, Social Justice, Grassroots Democracy, Nonviolence, Community-Based Economics, Decentralization, Feminism, Respect for Diversity, Personal and Global Responsibility and Future Focus.
Past award winners include Community for Sustainable Energy, David Roy, Wolverine Farm Publishing/Matter Press, Laura Pritchett, David Sirota, Eric Fried, Gina Janett, Norberto Valdez, Cheryl Distaso, John Anderson, Coloradoans Against Resource Destruction (CARD), Save the Poudre, Gailmarie Kimmel, Maury Alberston, John Kefalas, Randy Fischer, Kelly Ohlson, Nancy York, New Belgium, and Avogadro’s Number.
For more information on the July 4 Party, the Green Giant Awards, or Poudre Valley Greens, call Eric Fried at 214-4548.
