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ShirLaLa's Earth Worm Disco headlines this year's events!Saturday April 21 at 1:30pm

Grand Central Station - Vanderbilt Hall

Send in pics of your little gardeners and we'll send you special seed packets to plant in your garden.

From Josh...
Last year, my son (now two) gave his little cousin (also two) a copy of your Earth Worm Disco CD.
This year, his cousin returned the gesture with some kid-sized garden tools and a bunch of seed packets attached to the giant card in this photo.

Earth Worm Disco Concert 4.25.10

Featuring:
Shira Kline on vocals
Avi Fox Rosen on guitar
Lee Free on drums
Tobi Parks on base

In the spirit of School House Rock and Free to Be You and Me, this is a musical playground for all of the little rock'n rollers who love to sing, dance and who love our planet too!

Featuring:
Shira Kline on vocals
Avi Fox Rosen on guitar
Lee Free on drums
Tobi Parks on base

In the spirit of School House Rock and Free to Be You and Me, this is a musical playground for all of the little rock n rollers who love to sing, dance and who love our planet too!

Featuring:
Shira Kline on vocals
Avi Fox Rosen on guitar
Lee Free on drums
Tobi Parks on base

In the spirit of School House Rock and Free to Be You and Me, this is a musical playground for all of the little rock n rollers who love to sing, dance and who love our planet too!

Here are ten ways a green kid can become a little bit greener:

1. Big kids save little animals. If you save the little animals, even the littlest ants, bees and caterpillars, you can save an entire eco-system.
2. Start a collection of colors, sounds, smells and textures. You’ll find them in the sky, in the park, on the beach, in photographs of butterflies, volcanoes, stars and in your backyard.
3. Plant an edible garden. You can plant a vegetable garden inside or outside; eating the vegetables is good for you and the garden is good for the air and the dirt.
4. Invent a magical machine to clean the air. (Thank you!)
5. Meet your neighbors. Your neighbors are not only down the street but all over the world! Together, we can play an important part in taking care of our planet.
6. Smile at flowers and say Hi! “Hi Rose, Hi Lilly, Hi Violet, Hydrangea!” They love to be noticed.
7. Say thank you. We receive nature’s gifts from every corner of the earth. What’s the best way to say thank you?
8. Decorate your recycling bins. Make pictures and lists that explain exactly what can be recycled so that everyone knows where to put things.
9. Share. When you get new toys, books and clothes, where do the old ones go? Hopefully not into the ground with the rest of our trash. You can share these things with other kids! Check out www.freecycle.org.
10. Love your nature because nature loves you.

Buy your groceries at the Farmers Market or a Food Coop.

Everyone is asking what can we do to help the environment? What are the best alternatives to use? The truth is, for the amount of energy we’re using these days, there is no alternative. So for now, Reduce Reduce Reduce. We can start by becoming more aware of our resource consumption. All of our stuff from computers to cell phones to solar panels come originally from natural resources, people included. There is of course a limit to the natural resources we have and we are using them up!

Here are ten super simple ways to reduce the amount of stuff we buy, throw out and use up.

1. Unplug. Did you know that nearly 75% of all electricity used to power electronic devises is consumed by products that are switched off ?! Don’t just turn off, unplug, save money and save hundreds of pounds of CO2.

2. Cook with a pressure cooker. You can put together a full meal of grains, veggies, beans, whatever you like at super high speeds without turning the heat up on your stove for more than a minute.

3. Open the curtains and shades. Let natural sunlight do its thing to warm up and light up your home.

4. Pay attention to packaging. Choose products in recyclable containers. Reuse your own packaging materials for everything from shipping to bringing your lunch to work.

5. Save the trees! From shade and fruit to medicine, filtration and oxygen, trees are our best friends. So. Re-use the backside of printer paper. Use cloth towels instead of paper. Skip the paper bag at the store by bringing your own. We can save billions of trees a year by just reducing the simplest things.

6. Buy your favorite things in bulk. Less packaging, less transportation, and it costs less too.

7. Offset your plane flights. With jut a couple of clicks you can reduce your carbon footprint by working with a company like Carbonfund.org. They take your small donation and support renewable energy and reforestation projects that reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

8. Buy your groceries at the Farmers Market or a Food Coop. Not only is it a great way to support a community with similar values to yours, but the quality of local and organic foods and products will up your quality of life immeasurably.

9. Share! Instead of throwing out the old stuff, donate it or give it away. Check out Freecycle.org, my personal favorite, where people will vie for the opportunity to pick up your old stuff right from your door.

10. Keep up your Green IQ. Increasing your environmental expertise is an investment in yourself, your family, your friends and your home.

Master Tap Dancer Khalid Hill joins Shira Kline on her new recording, Earth Worm Disco!

Why sit inside when you can
get on your bicycle
roll up on your tricycle
dance down the street
it's got a beat
just use your feet! GO!

EJYG is Robin Burdulis, Terry Dame, Mary Feaster, Lee Frisari and Julian "Julz A" Hintz

Electric Junkyard Gamelan is the brainchild of bandleader and composer Terry Dame. Born out of desire to create a totally new and original sound Dame fused her two passions, making music and inventing and building things to form this totally unique group. While studying Balinese Gamelan in graduate school in 1997, Dame became intrigued with the high energy interlocking rhythms and the amazing ring of overtones created by the ensemble of metal gongs and xylophone-type instruments used in traditional Balinese music. An inventor by nature she began experimenting with making mainly percussion instruments out of found objects and junk from the local scrap yard. Thus was born the Electric Junkyard Gamelan.

Playing onstage

On stage playing their junkyard instruments

Playing instruments made from plant pots and other found objects