CAMPUS CONCERT: Love Each Other, Love Your Earth

EVENT: “Love Each Other, Love Your Earth: Inspiring Environmental Change through Music and Literature,"
Featuring performances by Joe Reilly and Evan Chambers

SPONSOR: Hosted by the Program in the Environment (PitE), University of Michigan

TIME, DATE, LOCATION:
8:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 14, 2012
RC Keene Auditorium (East Quad)
701 East University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1245 

DESCRIPTION: The environment and the arts come together in this concert, allowing the wider environmental community to hear and experience how arts can influence social and environmental change. Ann Arbor singer/songwriter Joe Reilly performs musical pieces that inspire citizens to become agents of environmental and social change, while Evan Chambers (U-M Professor of Composition) puts the poetic, environmental writings of Keith Taylor (Adjunct Faculty and Coordinator of Undergraduate Creative Writing) to piano.

Doors open at 8:15 p.m. This event is free and open to public (so bring your date!). You and your partner are invited to the Pre-Concert Valentine’s Day Reception at 7:30 p.m. in the Benzinger Library, upstairs from the auditorium.

MORE INFORMATION: Visit: www.lsa.umich.edu/pite/events 

PERFORMER BIOGRAPHIES:

Joe Reilly is a singer, songwriter and environmental educator from Ann Arbor who writes songs from his heart. Through his music, Joe invites listens to heal relationships with our selves, with each other, and with the earth.  Joe uses his music to bring people together and build community across lines of race, class, gender, ethnicity, religion, age, and nationality. Joe will be joined in this concert by world-renowned musicians Gayelynn McKinney on Drums, Marion Hayden on Bass, and Allison Radell on Piano.  You can find out more about Joe’s music at www.joereilly.org. Joe graduated from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment in 2000 and is currently enrolled in the Master’s Program at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. 

Composer Evan Chambers (b.1963) serves as Chair of Composition at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is known for his intense vocal performances of his own contemporary Classical works, which are often influenced by folk music. He is also an avid Irish-traditional fiddler, and appeared as a soloist in Carnegie Hall with the American Composers Orchestra in 2008. His works have been performed by the Cincinnati, Kansas City, Spokane, Memphis, New Hampshire, and Albany Symphonies, among others, and has been described by the Washington Post as “luminous, wistful …undeniably poignant,” “with an elegant sense of restrained longing.”