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The Campus Greens, working closely with several other campus
organizations, is bringing six diverse performers to the Reeve Union
Ballroom for a peace concert Thursday, Nov. 14 at 6 p.m.
The
groups performing at the event, called Music NOT Bombs are Mr.
Slate, Sounds like Braille, This Bright Apocalypse, Jason Moon, Fox
River String Band and DJ Y-Knot. Andy Posselt, a spokesman for the
Campus Greens, said the bands were chosen for their
diversity.
Aside from the bands there will be two or three
speakers. Bob Poeschl, member of the Student Environmental Action
Coalition and Tony Palmeri, communications professor and member of
the Wisconsin Green Party, will be the two main speakers. The
adviser for the Campus Greens, Anne Frische, will also speak if time
permits.
Originally this event was to be a benefit concert
for Shelter for Life. With the recent events in the war against Iraq
they changed it to a concert for peace.
Shelter for Life is a
charity that travels to war-torn countries and rebuilds homes and
schools damaged by war.
“It’s a concert to bring awareness
about peace and about our relationship with other human beings,”
Posselt said.
The cover charge for this event is $5, $3 with
two or more non-perishable food items or free with the donation of a
winter coat.
The organizers will donate the proceeds, all the
food and coats to Shelter for Life.
The first band, Mr.
Slate, is a three-piece funk/rock band from the Green Bay area. Mr.
Slate boasts singer and bassist Dan Posselt, guitarist Grady Magee
and drummer Mike “Cookie” Karraker. Their influences include such
bands as Primus, Stone Temple Pilots and Rob Zombie.
Dan
Posselt said, like his brother Andy, “I have always had a strong
interest in politics and when he decided to put on this concert I
was very interested.”
Mr. Slate will release its first album
called “American Star” in December. The album is self produced and
recorded in Green Bay.
Another three-piece band to perform
Thursday is the Fox River String Band. Luke Soden on the guitar,
Nick Steingart on the mandolin and Matt Krempien on the banjo form
the trio, which performs mostly bluegrass, old timey and folk music.
The Fox River String Band has many influences including
Jerry Garcia and David Grissman. They all sing vocals to give their
music thick harmonies. The band played together for one show in 2001
and recently reformed just under a month ago.
This Bright
Apocalypse is also performing at Music NOT Bombs. The band contains
two guitarists: Adam Betz on lead and Justin Bartlett on rhythm. The
beat is driven by Adam Cargin on the trap set and vocalist Luke
Baffuener, who plays African percussion. Dan Freeman on the bass
finishes off their quintet.
TBA combines the concept of math
rock with Middle Eastern and African tones. Math rock is taking
several time signatures and playing with them in ways not standard
to most rock songs.
The band released a CD in 1999 called
“Seven Day Hope Prescription” and two tour albums. All their CDs are
self-produced. They have recently signed with the label 54? 40’ or
Fight!, and are working on their upcoming full-length album “Motion
and Rest.”
Tony Jensen, aka DJ Y-Knot, will bring the sound
of the hip-hop underground to this event. He has been spinning for
about three years and his major influences include DJ Premier and DJ
Baboo.
Another solo artist gracing the stage in the ballroom
is Jason Moon. He paradoxically describes his music as both angry
folk music and pleasant singer/songwriter music. His major
influences are Bob Dylan and traditional blues artists.
Moon
has been performing in Oshkosh for around eight years and has three
CDs out. The most recent is “Naked Under all these
Clothes.”
“I got involved with this event by putting the word
out to many local consciously aware groups that I will help out and
because I would rather pay 10 cents more per gallon of gas than go
to war,” Moon said.
He said he is always interested in
participating in political events.
Sounds Like Braille is the
last band slated to play for Music NOT Bombs. The band is a
three-piece setup, whose members play guitar, bass and drums. Sounds
like Braille’s style could be described as out-jazz, progressive
rock or metal with Frank Zappa, King Crimson and Thought Industry
listed as some of their influences according to an interview with
band member Dave Osterling for www.adrenalinfanzine.com.
Tony
Palmeri who, besides being a communications professor at Oshkosh and
a Green Party member, writes a column for “The Scene” called Media
Rants, where he critiques the local and national media. However, he
said he will give a pep talk of sorts to the local peace
activists.
“My main point will be; it’s important when you’re
a peace activist to realize that you are really in the majority,”
Palmeri said. “You’re just speaking out in ways other people feel
they can’t or won’t.”
The other speaker at Music NOT Bombs is
Bob Poeschl, co-coordinator of SEAC.
He agreed to help after
Posselt and the Campus Greens approached him about Music NOT
Bombs.
In light of United Nations demand on Iraq to abstain
from creating nuclear weapons and North Korea’s recent announcement
of its newly acquired nuclear power, Poeschl will be discussing the
nuclear revival in the United States.
More importantly, he
said he would explain, “how our role as a nuclear weapon state
pretty much mandates other nuclear weapon states to enter the race.”
SEAC and other groups including Students for Peace,
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship and the Sociology Club will have
tables inside the ballroom with literature about their specific
groups as well as information about anti-war and anti-nuclear
weapons movements.
In the past, Posselt worked with Poeschl
and SEAC with weekly peace rallies.
“This seems to be a
little more accessible and universal way to get the message out to
other people,” Posselt said.
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