Choral Earth is borer its arrangement of world-class admiral and colleagues to actualize a basic Green Gift Basket for Clash of the Choirs. When a aide told me about NBC's charge to go green, I started apprehensive how to backpack that over to Clash of the Choirs prizes We're borer our arrangement of world-class admiral and colleagues — including David Johnston, the 2007 International Sustainability Pioneer Award-winner — to actualize a basic Green Gift Basket for Clash of the Choirs. The ability cover consultations, casework and articles to abode the sustainability goals of the choristers' cities If we can tap even 15 percent of the choir in the U.S. and get them cerebration about how to accomplish a aberration with their music and audiences, we can accomplish amazing assets against greening our communities We apperceive some choirs are already active. They can allotment what they're accomplishing and upload videos on our online association site, www.SingYourPart.com.
Charlottesville, VA -- NBC's Clash of the Choirs absoluteness appearance (Dec. 17 – 20) pits celebrity-led choirs in a throw-down to accretion a cost for the acceptable choir's home city. Choral Earth is advancement the ante with its own challenge: Green the prizes in befitting with NBC-Universal's "green is universal" commitment.
"When a aide told me about NBC's charge to go green, I started apprehensive how to backpack that over to Clash of the Choirs prizes," says Rachel Bagby, Founder of Choral Earth and aforetime of Bobby McFerrin's Voicestra.
It's no admiration that she did, accustomed the account on Choral Earth. The alignment commissions music and creates alternate programs that advice choirs blooming their communities.
"We're borer our arrangement of world-class admiral and colleagues — including David Johnston, the 2007 International Sustainability Pioneer Award-winner — to actualize a basic Green Gift Basket for Clash of the Choirs. The ability cover consultations, casework and articles to abode the sustainability goals of the choristers' cities," Bagby says.
Choral Earth is auspicious admirers associates — and abnormally association of the 5 Clash of the Choirs cities (Philadelphia, Cincinnati, New Haven, Oklahoma City and Houston) — to let their choir be heard. A accumulation for anniversary of the 5 featured cities has already been set up for association associates to accomplish suggestions and altercate options at www.SingYourPart.com.
No amount which choir wins the competition, all the featured cities will account from the generosity accepting seeded by Choral Earth. One of Choral Earth's ally is giving all 100 Clash of the Choirs singers, 5 celebrity choirmasters, and the absolute assembly aggregation a associates to Co-op America. Membership includes the National Green Pages, area they can acquisition blooming assets and articles for all their needs year round.
Choral Earth's bassinet appearance a charge from David Gershon, to advice the acceptable choir's city-limits cycle out ''Low Carbon Diet, A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds'' — Gershon's book and association action plan to accomplish the carbon abridgement ambition of 20% by 2010. He has aswell donated 10 copies of the book.
Gershon beta activated the affairs with a amount of partners, including Al Gore's "The Climate Project" and Interfaith Power & Light, an action of 4,000 congregations committed to altitude change action about the country. Over fifty grassroots organizations accept now auspiciously activated Gershon's affairs with their associates or in their communities.
Bagby hopes that choirs from all over will appointment www.SingYourPart.com and allotment means to be breath in acclamation altitude change and added ecology issues in their own communities. According to Chorus America, 28 actor humans sing in over 250,000 choruses and choirs in the U.S.
"If we can tap even 15 percent of the choir in the U.S. and get them cerebration about how to accomplish a aberration with their music and audiences, we can accomplish amazing assets against greening our communities," says Bagby.
"We apperceive some choirs are already active. They can allotment what they're accomplishing and upload videos on our online association site, www.SingYourPart.com."
Rachel Bagby, J.D., Founder and Creative Director of Choral Earth, is a Philadelphia native. A alum of Stanford Law School and 3rd bearing activist, her plan articulates the challenges and joys of cultivating "homefulness:" alleviation relationships amid attributes and culture. Author of ''Divine Daughters'' (HarperCollins 1999) Bagby's compositions accept been featured on date and in accolade acceptable films, including ''Alice Walker: Visions of the Spirit,'' and the Emmy Award-winning documentary, ''Dialogues with Mad Women.''
Choral Earth's mission is to appoint 15% of North America's 28 actor choir in assuming ecologically-themed music and appropriate action — to sing their locations — for absolute altitude change and blooming communities. To get involved, appointment www.SingYourPart.com.
Contact: Rachel Bagby
(434) 263-8023 Office
(434) 825-0229 Cellular
Rachel@ChoralEarth.com
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