David Shaw of The Revivalists performs at Whale Jam Boston 2024. Courtesy of Whale Jam
It will likely be a whale of a great time — for a great trigger — when members of Mt. Joy, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Young the Giant, Needtobreathe, The Red Clay Strays and extra carry out a present benefiting endangered whales subsequent month.
This group of artists, together with different yet-to-be introduced musicians, will carry out as a part of Whale Jam, an ongoing live performance collection benefiting The Whale & Dolphin Conservation, and North Atlantic proper whales specifically.
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This upcoming version of Whale Jam marks the occasion’s first time in New York City, with earlier present occurring in Boston for the reason that occasion’s inception in 2022.
Happening Dec. 12 at Brooklyn Paramount, a 2,700-capacity venue that opened earlier this 12 months, the night time will function Matt Quinn of Mt. Joy, Ela Melo of Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Sameer Gadhia of Young the Giant, Clyde and Grace Lawrence of Lawrence and others. See the present lineup under.
Tickets for the occasion are available now and begin at $64, with proceeds straight benefiting the nonprofit Whale & Dolphin Conservation North America. Focused on stripped down units and impromptu collaborations, Whale Jam’s final present this previous May in Boston raised $75,000 for the group.
Whale Jam is produced by Nantucket Crisps, a potato chip model impressed by Nantucket, with flavors named after islands on the seashore. The famed Massachusetts island is, in fact, situated within the North Atlantic ocean, the place whalers within the 1800s hunted North Atlantic proper whales to the brink of extinction. Nantucket was as soon as the whaling capital of the world, a legacy that gave Nantucket Crisps co-founder Hayden Arnot a particular curiosity in elevating cash for whale conservation.
“For our last show, Matt Quinn joined Taylor Meier for ‘Dreams’ by Fleetwood Mac, David Shaw of The Revivalists joined Jonathan Russell of The Head and The Heart for ‘Lost in my Mind’, and at the end of the show all of the artists joined on stage for a rambunctious version of Neil Diamond’s ‘Sweet Caroline’, very fitting for Boston,” Arnot tells Billboard. “It’s truly amazing seeing these eco-minded artists take the time out of their busy schedules for this cause; it’s a stars aligning moment every time. The North Atlantic Right Whale is a whale that is very near and dear to the heart of the Northeast.”
North Atlantic proper whales — named so as a result of whalers as soon as thought of them the “right whales” to hunt — are solely present in North America and reside on East Coast’s migratory hall. According to the The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the North Atlantic proper whale is likely one of the world’s most endangered massive whale species. The whales have been listed below the Endangered Species Act since 1970, with roughly 370 of those whales at the moment remaining.
Their two largest threats to those whales are strikes from water vessels and unintended entanglement in fishing gear. As such, cash raised by Whale Jam straight advantages efforts to increase on demand fishing, which removes vertical line from fishing waters to forestall entanglement. Whale and Dolphin Conservation North America can be working to implement laws that will require water vessels to go slower throughout whale migration intervals. Money raised goes to buy on demand fishing gear and to pay employees working to get laws in place.
“In order for our oceans to be healthy, we need whales,” Whale & Dolphin Conversation’s deputy director Melissa Walker tells Billboard, explaining that the work whales to do flow into vitamins within the ocean performs an important function in ocean well being and its potential to soak up carbon and launch oxygen.
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