Concert for Climate • October 27, 2024 at 2:30pm • St Luke’s Episcopal Cathedral • Portland Maine

Concert for Climate is a multi-media educational, entertaining, and inspiring afternoon program of music and message.

The keynote speaker will be Brianna Warner. Brianna is the CEO of Atlantic Sea Farms, a cutting-edge, mission driven kelp farming company working to diversify coastal incomes in the face of rapid climate change.

The presentation will feature:

Grammy Award winner composer and musician Paul Sullivan

Violinist Lydia Forbes of the highly acclaimed Daponte String Quartet

Accomplished pianist, composer and climate activist Sydney Patten

World fusion music pioneer Randy Armstrong

Renowned pianist Annie Antonacos of the Portland Piano Trio

Newly composed works honoring our Ocean will be performed for the first time.

And, especially for the children, an enchanting visit from a great white shark played by Cassandra Hayes during a performance of Rachmaninov’s “Elegie.”

This fundraiser has been created by the volunteer group Citizens Climate Education to support Maine students participation in climate initiatives in Washington D.C. We are grateful to all the performers who have donated their time and considerable talent to this event.

We’re All in This Together

Inspiration, Education, Action

Citizens’ Climate Lobby presents A Concert for Climate at St. Luke’s in Portland on October 27th.

By Sydney Patten

It’s been said that if you overwhelm people with statistics or retell stories of doom over and over again, things eventually will go in one ear and out the other. And so it is with climate change, an existential crisis like no other humans have ever faced.

We’ve all heard that things are bad. We can even feel the difference – in warmer air temperatures and even ocean temperatures. Many more people are now able to brave the once frigid waters of Maine to go swimming. Meanwhile lobsters move northward to find cooler waters.

But how many of us are really changing the way we live? How many of us know about the many things we can do to mitigate our carbon footprint? How many of us know which actions are the most effective? And what will it take to get us to make changes?

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A Concert for Climate
Sun., Oct. 27 / 2:30 p / St. Luke’s Cathedral

In an effort to educate, a group associated with Citizens’ Climate Lobby is offering an event to inspire us and demonstrate what we can do to make a difference. A Concert for Climate and will take place at St. Luke’s Cathedral in Portland Maine this October 27th at 2:30PM.

So, you can throw statistics at people all day long and that will not change their habits. But if you inspire them – and what better way to do that than with music – then you stand a much better chance of affecting their behavior.

Some of the performers you will hear at this concert are: Grammy Award winner, Paul Sullivan; violinist with the Daponte String Quartet, Lydia Forbes; Annie Antonacas, pianist with the Portland Piano Trio; world fusion musician, Randy Armstrong; Cassandra Hayes, singer and actress and Sydney Patten, pianist.

Come to this inspiring concert. You will most definitely be moved, and you will be armed with new information to combat climate change. You may even transform any despair you are feeling into hope with the new actions you may be taking.

Get your tickets here: Concert for Climate Tickets, Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 2:30 PM | Eventbrite.