Greetings music lovers and welcome to the official website of The Giving Tree Band.
Please come in, take a look around, and make yourselves at home...
The Giving Tree Band is a group Earth-friendly, songwriting multi-instrumentalists. Their music is filled with passionate lyrics, intricate vocal harmonies, and creative arrangements for a wide variety of instruments. Using songwriting and performing as a vehicle for community service, the band’s mission is to inspire a culture of sustainability and peace through music. The environmentally "sound" decisions of the band include performing with instruments that were built from naturally fallen trees and reclaimed woods, producing music with renewable energy, packaging CD's with 100% recycled materials, and supporting numerous charities and eco-friendly organizations with their concerts and recordings.
The Giving Tree Band has helped many non-profit organizations including Hand In Hand USA, World Vision, One: The Campaign To Make Poverty History, Co-op America, Global Exchange, Action Without Borders, Literacy Works, Illinois Renewable Energy Association, Illinois Environmental Council, Illinois Stewardship Alliance, Prairie Rivers Network, Tibetan Cultural Center, and Growing Home Farm, which provides training and employment opportunities in organic agriculture for homeless and low-income people in Chicago.
Click here to read about the debut double album, Unified Folk Theory.
New Music: The group's second album will be a carbon-free product and as green as can be. A solar-powered recording session will begin this summer at the Aldo Leopold Legacy Center (right) in Baraboo, WI. The band selected this site to record because it is the first certified carbon neutral building by the LEED program of the US Green Building Council and considered the most energy efficient facility in the world. It preserves the legacy of Aldo Leopold, an American philospher and writer, widely regarded as the greatest conservation thinker of the 20th century. The members of The Giving Tree Band will camp 10 miles away at the nearest state park and ride bikes every morning and evening to and from the center for the entire four-week recording session. The CD's will then be manufactured with renewable wind power, packaged with 100% recycled materials, printed on with nontoxic soy inks, and "shrink-wrapped" in 100% biodegradable corn cellulose.
New Dates: The Giving Tree Band will perform at the Forecastle Festival in Louisville, KY on Sunday July 27, 2008. "One of the stranger lineups of the sumer," according to Rolling Stone, also includes The Del McCoury Band, The Disco Biscuits, Method Man (of Wu-Tang Clan), Ekoostik Hookah, and Tortoise. The goal of this fest is to establish a new cultural entertainment medium- music, art, and activism. It was selected as one of Paste Magazine's "Top 33" fests in the country and "One of the top 101 things to do in America" by Spin Magazine.
