Sustainable music for a fast-paced world
The Duhks in
concert on April 29th & 30th
04/17/2008 - In support of the Aspen
Meadows House Concerts (www.aspenmeadowshc.org)
series, The Duhks will play two nights at the Nederland, Colorado LEED-certified
Community Center Theater. Performances are at 7 pm on both Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings, and will help reimburse the house concert hosts Debbie and Greg Ching
who have spent over $25,000 defending the right to have quiet private
living room house concerts preceded by a potluck. Proceeds will also benefit The
Duhks Sustainability Project (www.greenduhks.com)
which was launched in October 2007 to raise awareness about ways to live a
more economically viable and ecologically sustainable lifestyle.
The Chings had not received any noise, traffic, or parking complaints before
Boulder County Land Use sent a cease-and-desist order in July 2006. Rather than
concede or sue Boulder County, the Chings tried to get the law changed. Boulder
County agreed on March 13th this year to legitimize these community-building
events with a precedent-setting Land Use Code revision hopefully complete by
this post Earth Day celebration.
Both performance nights will include a mini Sustainability exhibition and
silent auction. Selected live recordings from this concert will also be
available for CD-quality download via www.FestivaLink.net.
This concert will include new material from their next album (anticipated
release date July 2008). This intimate theater seats only 261 people.
$25 general admission tickets for this benefit will be sold through
www.greenduhks.com with no PR event service charges.
Reservations for The Duhks show at the Nederland Community Center can be made
for Tuesday, April 29 at
http://ectores.luisys.com/make_res.php?event_id=279 or Wednesday, April 30
at
http://ectores.luisys.com/make_res.php?event_id=280
VIP packages and single tickets can be purchased via
http://greenduhks.com/index.php?page=shop&display=Benefit_Concerts
Questions regarding this concert or The Duhks Sustainability Project can be
addressed via
greg@duhks.com or 303-957-3111.
The Duhks (pronounced like "ducks") are a 5-member Canadian
folk-rock-Celtic-old time-bluegrass-contemporary-Latin-French
Canadian-gospel (though usually described as folk rock or bluegrass) group. Four
of them hail from Winnipeg, Manitoba and the fifth member is from Victoria,
British Columbia. Their music draws heavily on all of the North American musical
traditions, while successfully integrating Latin-music-influenced percussion.
Their first album, Your Daughters & Your Sons was nominated for a Juno
award, their eponymous second album won a Juno for Best Roots & Traditional
Album by a Group, and Heaven's My Home, from their third album, was
nominated for the 2007 Grammy award for Best Country Performance By A Duo Or
Group With Vocal.
Aspen Meadows House Concerts strives to build community through consistent
high quality acoustic musical performances in an intimate mountain setting. This
is a private invitation-only potluck concert series not open to the general
public. These private parties are not a business, nor are they a
business-related activity.
