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Redwood Forest musician Andy Barnett comes to Cambridge
"From Silver Maples to the Redwood forest"

(See also: The First Parish Environmental Group and CUUPS are co-sponsoring a musical performance and gathering on May 14th: "From the Silver Maple Forests to the Redwood Forests" - Featured is celebrated musician and red woods forest activist, Andy Barnett, who will lead an evening celebration of nature. Paul Winter has referred to Andy as, "A tremendous catalyst". The event will raise money for the Environmental Group to support the effort of FAR (Friends of the Alewife Reservation) to reprint their sold-out Alewife wildlife inventory book. Location: First Parish Meeting House at 8 pm. Donation requested.
Note: The evening performance will also serve as a pre-event to a large outdoor drum and dance gathering in the Alewife Reservation the following day, Saturday, May 15, to celebrate the Alewife ecosystem and endangered Silver Maple Forest in particular.

Redwood Forest musician Andy Barnett comes to Cambridge
"From Silver Maples to the Redwood forest"

The unusual Alewife urban wild has intrigued Andy Barnett of California's Redwood forest, who recently visited the site while seeing Boston friends. He took careful note of the controversial forested upland buffer and told Ellen Mass of the Friends he would come back, if a trip was desired by the local environmental community. As a result, Andy will return to Cambridge and Belmont the week of May 8th to share a newly created cultural program at the site itself with sponsors, Friends of Alewife Reservation, Earth Drum Council and Dance group Teriya. Revelers, preservationists and earth-spirit enthusiasts will come together at the rare silver maple forest in a Spring Celebration May 15th at 3 pm appreciating the forest and heavily surrounding wetlands, some of the 18 species of mammals that den there, and many bird species that need the high canopy and wetland-uplands for habitat and survival.

Andy comes to the Boston area as a deeply inspired musician by the music of nature. His cultural research has kept him deeply involved with preservation efforts throughout the Western Hemisphere. He traveled to Chile, to help create Ancient Forest International, a group which worked to save thousands of acres of temperate rainforest. He has successfully worked to preserve important stands of trees in Northern California. He is intrigued by music that animals make, and the rhythms of the earth that fill our world with life. He continues in the century old struggle to save the California coastal Redwood forests with the Friends of the Eel River, battling the logging company, now devastating the last remaining unprotected stands.

Andy's musical career spans 30 years as musician, dance composer, educator and author. He has taught at the University of California, Humboldt State University, and secondary and elementary schools. His recent book, "Compose Yourself! Awakening to the Rhythms of Life" has been well recognized. Don Campbell, author of "The Mozart Effect," calls Andy "a shining visionary for the transformational uses of music." World music pioneer, Paul Winter, characterizes Andy as "a tremendous catalyst " in interactive style and Composition. The essence of Barnett's work is his ability to perceive and express the natural musicality he sees, whether in objects or a musical novice. Audiences are often surprised by their instant ability to make music together with Barnett's stimulating and creative techniques. A special First Parish program will be performed by Andy, May 14th at the church in Harvard Square at 8. For more information and any requests to Andy for another event, call 617 547-1944 or 547-4480.