Brother Esau: Wine to Water Benefit Concert, April 30th, 2011

On April 30th, at 8 pm, Brother Esau, a Grateful Dead tribute band, will be holding a benefit concert at The Church of the Covenant in Greensboro, North Carolina.  The charity we hope to raise money for is Wine to Water, an organization that seeks to bring clean water to people all across the developing world.  For a brief introduction to this North Carolina based charity, see the following video of its founder, Greensboro's own Doc Hendley, at Asheville's TED conference in 2009:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-IW1gankbM

I got the inspiration to put on this concert from a writing class that I teach at North Carolina A&T State University. Last fall, in her final presentation on a figure that was transforming the world through a new technology, Lolita Jackson introduced our class to Doc Hendley and his water project.  Although some of Hendley's tech is rather primitive (carbon filters, wells), his approach to promotion is certainly a testament to the technologies of the 21st century.  Just as social networking is transforming the Mid-East as we speak, so is it connecting the world to this beautiful organization, Wine to Water.

Thank you, Lolita, and thank you, Doc!

More later...