Vermont's Freedom & Unity Chorus with David Feurzeig - Play Every Town VT
Sat, Mar 04
|Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Join us Saturday, March 4th in Jericho, VT at 7PM for a special performance with David Feurzeig, a pianist on a journey to play a free concert in every town in Vermont between May 2022 and December 2026 for a cooler climate. Learn more at: www.PlayEveryTown.com
Time & Location
Mar 04, 2023, 7:00 PM EST
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 273 VT-15, Jericho, VT 05465, USA
About the event
The Play Every Town Project
Pianist David Feurzeig to play a free concert in every town in Vermont between May 2022 and December 2026
Why?
Live music is back after a long Covid pause. Great! But existing touring models are not sustainable. Like so much of our everyday fossil-fuel-intensive culture, touring needs to change rapidly and radically if we are to maintain a livable world. Long-distance jet-dependent concertizing is not limited to star performers: for academic musicians as well, like me, there are incentives to fly, fly, fly. The farther the gig, the more prestige and promotion/tenure brownie points earned—even at UVM, my green-branded employer. (Look at my bio right here, I still boast about my premiere in Dresden! my performance in Bangkok!)
But I’ve given up flying. I’ll have to travel to the rest of my gigs by public transit or in my solar-powered EV, and that’s going to…