The 2012 Clearwater Festival, a free, family-friendly celebration of the earth’s resources with live music, food, and environmental exhibits, rolls into shady Sunset Park in Asbury Park on Aug. 11. The event runs from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m, rain or shine.
The Clearwater Festival is sponsored by the nonprofit New Jersey Friends of Clearwater, founded in the 1970s to promote awareness and protection of natural resources.
More than a dozen environmental organizations, including Clean Ocean Action, the Sierra Club Jersey Shore, N.J. departments of Environmental Protection and Agriculture, the Surfrider Foundation, Citizens for Wesley Lake, EarthShare, and the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will be represented.
There will also be crafters and eco-friendly vendors. For more information, visit www.mcclearwater.org.
The schedule of performers is as follows:
Main Stage: 11 a.m., Allen Chapel AME Youth Choir; noon, Three Mercies; 1 p.m., Poppa John Pug; 2 p.m., O’Neill & Martin; 3 p.m., The Wag; 4 p.m., Arlan Feiles; 5 p.m., Cobra Brothers; and 6 p.m., Circle of Song Singers.
Acoustic Stage: noon., Danny Alderman; 1 p.m., Lorraine Stone, storyteller; 2 p.m., Robert Francis, the Dork of Deception; 2:45 p.m., Tommy and Abby Anton; 3:30 p.m., Spook Handy; 4:15 p.m., Danny Rongo; and 5 p.m., The Sunday Blues.
Circle of Song Stage: 11 a.m., Jim Crawford, Tony DeSantis, Ingrid Heldt; noon, Carl Croce, Sharleen Leahey, Mara Levine;1 p.m., Sheli Aarden-Monacchio, Arlon Bennett, Helga Koeter; 2 p.m. Joe Petraitis, Tom Picard, Jerzy Jung; 3 p.m., Sloop Singers, Jan Christiansen, Eric Russell & Hillary Zaenchick; 4 p.m., Circle Round the Sun and others; 5 p.m., Isis & Her Tribes.
For more information, visit www.mcclearwater.org.