Waterband

Waterband

Waterband is a pop/ funk/ jam band from North East Ohio Founded by David "Dreadlock Dave" McDougald and John Welton who had played together in a group known as "Vegetable Matter"...

's Waterfest is an annual two-day music, camping and arts festival

Arts festival

An arts festival is a festival that focuses on the visual arts in all its forms, but which may also focus on or include other arts.Arts festivals in the visual arts are exhibitions and are not to be confused with the commercial art fair. Artists participate in the most important of such festival...

 that focuses on global water issues & showcases a very diverse variety of music. Over the course of the event, styles may include; Funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

, Rock, Jam Band

Jam band

-Ambiguity:By the late 1990s use of the term jam band also became ambiguous. An editorial at jamband.com suggested that any band of which a primary band such as Phish has done a cover of be included as jam band. The example was including New York post-punk band Talking Heads after Phish performed...

, Reggae, Folk music

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 and more. Since 2008, Waterband's Waterfest has brought many bands to the Midwest during the summer season. There are two main stages that alternate bands so that festival goers experience music all day and into the night.

The event focuses on golbal water issues such as trans-boundaries, sanitation, filtration, water wells, wetlands and rivers. In addition, special events during the festival are focused to draw attention to global water issues through Waterband's Wishing Well.

Waterband's Waterfest also showcases non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...

s from the Waterband Wishing Well with an emphasis on organizations who strive to help with world water issues. Information and demonstrations include everything from environmental awareness to social consciousness

Social consciousness

Social consciousness is consciousness shared within a society. It can also be defined as social awareness; to be aware of the problems that different societies and communities face on a day-to-day basis; to be conscious of the difficulties and hardships of society.- Theory :Many studies have been...

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This year, Waterband's Waterfest will take place July 8, 9, 10, 2011 at Slippery Rock Dunes Campground, Slippery Rock Pennsylvania.