Another season of
concerts was a great success at the World Bird Sanctuary. Special guest musicians Javier Mendoza,
Babaloo and a band named Fowl Play filled this year’s schedule.
The Raptor Project takes to the stage (photo: Gay Schroer)
We had wonderful sponsors
that helped us make this event happen.
Ameren Missouri partnered with the World Bird Sanctuary’s education
department to sponsor the concerts and many of the other events on our yearly
schedule. Other sponsors were Sprout and About, Whole Foods Market and the
Hendrickson insurance group. We
appreciate all the support of these sponsors.
Naturalist JoHanna Burton releases a Harris' Hawk during a musical number (photo: Gay Schroer)
Enthusiastic audiences
turned out to enjoy an evening of unique music mixed with flying birds, snake
parades and a stage full of bubbles.
The World Bird Sanctuary’s band “The Raptor Project” performed each
Thursday night. Many of the songs
played were from the band’s first two CDs, which were produced to benefit the
Kathryn G. Favre wildlife hospital.
This year we performed 7 new songs, which were not previously
released.
The band’s soundman,
volunteer Rusty Wandall, was able to set up recording equipment to start
production of a live album. Older
songs from the first two CDs will be chosen after we listen to the tapes from
all the shows to figure out what sounds best. This will be a long process and we hope to have a digital
release of a live CD sometime in the spring of 2015. We just hope the tapes reflect the great fun we had at the
concerts this year.
Submitted by World Bird Sanctuary's Sanctuary Manager, Joe Hoffmann
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