2008 Green Apple Festival gets environmental in eight cities

With the addition of five new festival sites, this April's Green Apple Music Festival becomes "America's Largest Earth Day Celebration." The three-city event has expanded to an eight-city simultaneous celebration for its third year, with a weekend of music and environmental awareness wrapping up on Sunday, April 20. The eight festival sites are expected to host 500,000 people for the free, all-inclusive, interactive event.

They lucky locales are: Central Park in New York City; The National Mall in Washington, D.C.; The Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, Ill.; Bicentennial Park in Miami, Fla.; City Park in Denver, Colo.; Fair Park in Dallas, Texas; Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Calif. and Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles, Calif.

The festival will incorporate a "small footprint, large impact" ethos and coordinate environmental volunteer activities in each of the eight cities. The artists performing at each concert have yet to be announced, but Green Apple Festival founder and executive producer Peter Shapiro told Billboard.biz, "There will be big acts at all of the free eight events." Last year's definition of "big" included The Decemberists, The Walkmen, My Brightest Diamond, Andrew Bird, Umphrey's McGee, The Disco Biscuits, Brand New, Bob Weir and Ratdog, State Radio and many others.

Aside from the simultaneous events on April 20, the festival will also incorporate 150 carbon neutral Green Apple Concerts at venues around the country throughout the weekend, April 18-20.

This year's performers will be announced in the coming weeks.

Related links:
GreenAppleMusicFestival.com
EarthDay.net

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