This past weekend was a busy one for State Radio. Not only did the band play a sold out show at the new House of Blues on Lansdowne Street, but Chad Stokes also led fans at four different environmental service projects in the Greater-Boston area, Thursday through Sunday.
Thanks to everyone who joined us at Hampton Beach, the Franklin Park Zoo, Mattapan Elementary School, and EarthWorks!
BostonMusicSpotlight.com has a great article on this past “marathon weekend” of service:
Not every rockstar would spend his homecoming weekend cleaning up urban wilds, planting trees, and spreading mulch between shows, but that is what Chad and his partner Sybil Gallagher do in nearly every city they visit. They founded their humanitarian organization, Calling All Crows, as a way to mobilize musicians and their fans to get involved in public service and humanitarian efforts. Today’s event is the kickoff to the Serve America Challenge, a ten-day string of service projects to celebrate the passage of the Serve America Act. About two dozen State Radio fans have shown up at the Cooper Center, where the nonprofit Earthworks is based. Earthworks leads a variety of environmental projects around Boston, mainly community gardens and orchards. Today we’re doing a spring cleanup and getting the ground ready to plant trees in. Many of the volunteers were at the State Radio show last night, and most will end up the Paradise later for a solo acoustic show with Chad. But for now, they’re getting dirty.
Thanks to contributing writer Ethan Swann for getting his hands dirty and joining us in service on Sunday!
