A little Earth Day music

For quite a few years now, a group of EPA employees have gathered on Earth Day to play music together. We perform at our office Earth Day event, and we call ourselves, naturally enough, the Earth Tones.

We practice on our lunch breaks in empty conference rooms. The lineup may change from year to year, but our organizer and keeper of the chord charts (and bringer of the P.A.!) is always Bill Tong, who works in EPA Region 5's water program.

We play mostly folk music, and some Irish and old-timey tunes. All the songs we sing have an environmental connection (sometimes more tenuous than others).

I realize it's not strictly Agency environmental protection work that we're doing when we play, but it's fun to do non-work things sometimes, too.

Here's a recording (mp3, 2:46, 3.9MB) we made of "The Great Lakes Song" by Shel Silverstein.

More info on the Earth Tones w/ photos and music

Happy Earth Day to you!

Karen Reshkin works in EPA Region 5's public affairs office and plays fiddle with the Earth Tones.

Comments

[Bill Tong]

Video of the "Great Lakes Song" performed by The Earth Tones

[Bet-at-home]

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[dekor]

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[shmulike]

interesting Thanks for the advice