Queen Elizabeth Elementary School students are singing out for the Salish Sea.
The school is one of five around Southern B.C. taking part in this year’s Rock The Salish Sea! concert series. It’s the fourth year for the concert series, which features performers Holly Arntzen and Kevin Wright with the Wilds Band.
Queen Elizabeth Elementary students started learning the songs in their classrooms and music classes in January and February. On March 4, Arntzen and Wright will arrive in the school to begin a four-day artist-in-residence program, working with the students on the music and talking about ecological issues.
Concert night – Thursday, March 7 – will see the students and musicians share the stage in a performance that includes original eco-rock songs about oceans and watersheds, wild Pacific salmon, climate change and a renewable energy future.
The concert is at 6:45 p.m. at Bethany Baptist Church in Richmond’s Hamilton neighbourhood.
“Four hundred plus students have been practising songs for many weeks, getting ready to blow the roof off of the Bethany Baptist Church,” says a press release about the event.
Bethany Baptist Church is at 22680 Westminster Hwy., Richmond. Tickets are $5, available through the school.
Other schools taking part in this year’s tour are Lord Nelson in Vancouver, Old Yale Elementary in Surrey, Trudeau Elementary in Vancouver and the Lau’Welnew Tribal School in Sidney.
Check out www.artistresponseteam.com for more about the program.
