This festival always draws a huge crowd. On Saturday April 25th you can walk through beautiful Savannah to pick out your favorite sidewalk arts piece. The Savannah Sidewalk Arts festival is a arts competetion; first, second and third prize are awarded in a few different categories to the most impressive chalk masterpieces. The event takes place between Whitaker and Drayton Streets and admission is free. So bring your gang to the streets for a extraordinary art showing.
Click here for more information about Savannah Sidewalk Arts Festival.
Earth Day Festival 2009 – Savannah, Georgia
Savannah’s 13th Annual Earth Day Festival takes place in Forsyth Park with workshops, entertainment, vendors, raffles and more.
The City of Savannah’s Water Resources Bureau encourages festival-goers to be green and bring their own water bottle to the Earth Day festival because they will provide delicious water straight from the well.
Even the music performers are using solar energy at the event. The festival also has a recycling program for hard to recycle items. You can simply bring your item to the festival for recycling. At the festival they’ll except items such as cell phones, oil, tires and more. Please refer to the website for the complete list. (www.earthdaysavannah.org)
There are also a few interesting workhops at this festival. Learn how to compost using worms, collect rainwater in your backyard and get ideas about how to raise kids the green way.
Workshops, Side Tent, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
• 11:30am: Vermiculture; learn how to cultivate and maintain a worm compost bin at home! Display worm compost barrel will be raffled off at the end of the class! Taught by Saja Aures of the City of Savannah.
• 12:30pm: Rain Barrel Construction; build your own rain barrels and harvest one of Savannah’s most valuable resources: rain water! Taught by Kelly Lockamy of Organically Yours.
• 1:30pm: Green Parenting; general tips and ideas on how to raise our babies in an eco-friendly way! Taught by Bethany Jewell of The Metropolitan Planning Commission.
Savannah Wheelie Community Bike Ride
This is the 2nd time for the community bike ride. The ride starts at 3pm in Forsyth Park and is organized by the Savannah Bicycle Campaign. The ride will go through the streets of downtown Savannah to mark the end of the 13th Annual Earth Day Festival.
EPA’s Flagship Comes To Savannah, Georgia
(ATLANTA – APRIL 3, 2009) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Ocean Survey Vessel (OSV) BOLD will make its first appearance in Savannah, Ga., next week. EPA’s 224-foot research flagship will be docked at the Savannah Riverfront and will be open to the public. Free public tours will be conducted Apr. 9 and 10 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. by the U.S. EPA, the University of Georgia Marine Extension Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The OSV BOLD is equipped with state-of-the art sampling, mapping, and analysis equipment including side scan sonar, underwater video, water sampling instruments, and sediment sampling devices, which scientists use in various monitoring activities.
The vessel is a converted U.S. Navy T-AGOS class vessel and is 224 feet long and 43 feet wide. EPA acquired the OSV BOLD on Mar. 31, 2004. The ship, its crew and EPA scientists collect water quality and sediment samples, fish, and other organisms in the Pacific, Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
During its tour of duty in the area, the OSV BOLD will be used to:
Monitor ocean dredged material disposal sites in the southeast at four sites, including Savannah, Ga., Jacksonville and Tampa, Fl., and Mobile, Ala.;
Conduct coral reef monitoring in the Dry Tortugas National Park and the surrounding Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary; and
Investigate the ecological impact of an invasive coral species, Tubastraea coccinea, which may pose a threat to the health and biodiversity of Florida, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico reef ecosystems.
The EPA deploys the OSV Bold on numerous scientific surveys each year. The OSV Bold supports EPA’s efforts to monitor and assess impacts on ocean and coastal waters from land- and ocean-based human activities and naturally occurring ecological disturbances. EPA began using the 224-foot OSV Bold as a research vessel in 2005 to perform extensive marine surveys along the Atlantic Coast and Gulf of Mexico. In 2008, the ship visited the Pacific Coast for the first time. It has returned to the east coast and will begin survey activities in the Southeast in April.
For additional information about the OSV Bold, visit www.epa.gov/bold
Jazz Appreciation Month Concert – Savannah, Georgia
The Coastal Jazz Association of Savannah
Jazz Appreciation Month Concert
Rite of Swing
The Annual Duke Ellington Concert Featuring The Savannah Jazz Orchestra w/ Saxophonist Mark Sterbank on Sunday, April 19, 2009, 5:00 p.m.
The Coastal Jazz Association of Savannah presents a tribute to Duke Ellington on Sunday, April 19, 2009 which will feature special guest saxophonist, Mark Sterbank.
This event will be celebrating the legacy left by one of America’s greatest musicians/composers for what would have been his 110th birthday (born April 29, 1899).
Every year The Savannah Jazz Orchestra, under the co-leadership of Teddy Adams and Randy Reese, features both unfamiliar compositions and special guest artists as a part of enhancing the genius of every Ellington concert. This will be CJA’s 23rd year paying tribute to Mr. Ellington.
Special guest: Saxophonist Mark Sterbank is Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies and saxophone instructor at Charleston Southern University. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, where he received the coveted Performer’s Certificate and a Master of Music degree from the University of New Orleans, where he also studied with pianist Ellis Marsalis under a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts.
His credits include performances with Fred Wesley, Mary Wilson, the Darius Rucker Big Band, the Charleston and Savannah Symphonies, a national tour with the Harry Connick, Jr. Orchestra, and performances with Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade, Eartha Kitt, and the Temptations. Mark currently resides in Charleston, South Carolina.
Those in attendance will also bear witness to Priscilla Albergottie Williams, who is the featured vocalist for the Savannah Jazz Orchestra. Ms. Albergottie Williams, one of the finest vocalists in this area, has been performing both church and secular music and does them in superb equilibrium. She performed with trombonist, Teddy Adams, for years and was the featured vocalist with the Savannah Jazz Orchestra. She can be heard on SJO: live recording “Satin Doll”, the music of Duke Ellington and Johnny Mercer.
This special concert will be held on Sunday, April 19, 2009, 5:00 p.m. at the Armstrong Atlantic State University “Fine Arts Auditorium”
It is free and open to the public and is presented by The Coastal Jazz Association through a generous grant from the City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs.
For more information call 912-675-5419 or go to www.coastal-jazz.org
Savannah Music Festival 2009
The city of Savannah has spring fever. First it’s St Patrick’s Day and the city is taken over by a green, then the city follows up with a classy music festival unlike any other. The Savannah festival is unique, it offers up a buffet of music. There is truly something for everyone, and you really can’t imagine a more appropriate city for such a festival.
The Savannah Festival kicks of on March 19th and continues thru April 5th, 2009. It’s difficult to give you any guidance as to choice of music. Just take a look at their extensive program and read the information on the festival website, it’s enough to keep you busy for a while. Click here to visit Savannah Music Festival.
The video below gives you a pretty good idea as well. And if you didn’t know, the festival also made it as the weekly pick for Coastal Companion’s weekly show, the Georgia edition.