Unity Fest

The Unity Fest was a 2-day musical festival held in the back yard (Tipi Village) of The Red House, on 1998-11-07 and 1998-11-08.

An archive of the promotional web site reads: "First Annual UNITY FEST - A Benefit Concert for The ReDistribution Alternative".

Saturday, November 7th

Bands on Main Stage

• The Morning Glory Band
• Grace
• The Greasy Beans
• Sunny Side Up Band (for kids, young and old)
  • Pam somebody, if I remember right... --Woozle 21:37, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
• Velvet Jones and the Sex Appeal
• Planet Jive
  • I still have one of their CDs on the jukebox. --Woozle 21:37, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
• Sector 9

Sunday, November 8th

Bands on Main Stage

• Tribal Ascension and Where's Anita
  • "Tribal Ascension" was essentially Lynne and Bubba (of the infamous lawsuit 5 years later), son Jody on guitar, daughter Jessica & her husband Frank on vocals, plus me on keyboards; this must be the performance of which I have the DAT recording... --Woozle 21:37, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
• Plasticene Dream
• Peat Moss
• Donna Jewell and surprise guests
• King Daddy Zeb
• Day By the River
• Earth Collective

Bands on Side Stage (either on Sat. or Sun.)

• Cave Paintings
• Autoscope
• Stephen Wing (poetry)
• Blue Stockings
• Pleiades
• Shannon Lewis
• The Om Band

About the RDA

from the bottom of the web page (punctuation and spelling errors left intact):

The ReDistribution Alternative is a local non-profit organization comprised of an all-volunteer staff. RDA is dedicated to helping those in need of shelter, food, and healing through programs that utilize the redistribution of existing resources. RDA works in conjunction with local churches and food banks to provide shelter and food. Last year, RDA distributed over 20,000 pounds of food, hundreds of blankets, and many articles of clothing.

RDA hopes that Unity Fest will help to fund future projects. Among RDA's goals for future projects are a new facility and office space, an organic farm to be able to provide it's own resources to distribute, and a healing center that would contain a cannery and a free legal aid clinic.

Lynne Greiver, co-founder of RDA, described her hopes for the benefit, "We want Unity Fest and RDA to bring people together, people helping people. We have a lot of work to do and so much we want to accomplish to continue our work"

For more information on sponsoring or volunteering for Unity Fest or to volunteer to help RDA, click on the Contact Info link below.