** Everyone Orchestra ** Set 1 - 2-22-07

Athcast - Athens Music!

EO featuring for the Georgia Theatre performance:

Matt Butler

Brock Butler (P Groove)

Jeff Coffin (The Flecktones)

Asher Fulero

Chris Haugen (The Axis Brothers, Jambay)

Steve Kimock

Jeff Sipe (Phil and Friends, Trey Anastasio , ARU)

Tanya Shylock (Mountain of Venus )

Mike Sugar (Jambay)

THE EVERYONE ORCHESTRA is a revolving cast of stellar musicians brought together by drummer/conductor Matt Butler for concerts, festival super jams and special benefit events. EO performances are designed to create space for each performer's musical personality to shine, engage the audience as participants in the jam and to facilitate a massive celebratory coming together featuring a conductor directing both musicians and audience alike in interactive, lively, and highly danceable movements.

"We pass the 'musical talking stick' around the collective group of players and take turns leading the stage, much like sharing music around a campfire. We also play musical improv games that I sometimes refer to as 'music sports'. Then we culminate in moments when everyone is on stage at once, playing conducted improvisations together," says Butler, who is also the founder of the group.

The Everyone Orchestra has performed its shows nationally featuring members of The Grateful Dead, Phish, ALO, Disco Biscuits, The Derek Trucks Band, Fishbone, Poi Dog Pondering, String Cheese Incident, and Steve Kimock, G. Love, painters, dancers, hula hoopers, firespinners, stiltwalkers, activists, presidential candidates, storytellers and hundreds of others.

While Butler is the primary conductor, others who have taken the helm of EO include Zilla's Jamie Janover, former Leftover Salmon bassman Tye North, Jon Fishman, SCI's Michael Travis, ALO's Dan Lebowitz and Zach Giil, Kai Eckhardt, Jambay's Mike Sugar plus other musicians and lucky members of the audience.

Through the events and work of The Everyone Orchestra, close to $100,000 has been raised for contributions to non-profit and environmental organizations around the nation.

The Everyone Team

The Everyone Orchestra was founded with the intention of bringing together high caliber musicians with organizations, speakers and issues paramount to all of us in an interactive, creative, meaningful celebration. Since 2001, Matt has catalyzed more than 25 of these events around the nation. He credits a core team of quality people who support him by providing a sounding board and enthusiastic participation that include:

Sound Reinforcement

That crystal clear sound is no accident and a lot of hard work. Soundman extraordinaire Michael Wilson follows us to the remote theaters of the nation to interface with the intricate technical needs of so many musicians on stage and does it with such aplomb. Michael’s even keel and heartful support behind the scenes truly endear him to us. He spends his time between San Francisco and his recording studio in Eugene, Harmony Studios.

Painters

Each Everyone Orchestra experience has an artist or two interpreting the scene around them on canvas with paint. The creations are mighty and capture the raw, live essence of what it’s like to be at the scene. Paintings are auctioned with proceeds split between the artist and the benefiting organization and are the ultimate good time souvenir. Check out a couple of our perennial painters: Lang Schwartzwald, Joel Barber, www.louise.clow.com

Activists

No EO experience would be complete without the participation on the benefiting non-profit organization and an affiliated speaker. We’ve been honored by some incredible, inspiring speakers who sometimes get out the jam with us too. Some of them include Julia Butterfly Hill , Dennis Kucinich and storyteller Lou Gold.

The Women of EO

Everyone Orchestra believes that our music scene is entirely too dominated by men and intends to make a dent in that. Some of our favorite kickass collaborators of the female persuasion have included Libby Kirkpatrick, Maya Dorn, Shelley Doty, Melissa Crabtree, Hope Clayburn, Enion Pelta and Julia Butterfly Hill.

You, yes you

There are no spectators during Everyone Orchestra jams. Concert-goers are invited by the conductor to cheer, applaud, boo, shake hands and booties, do a musical version of the wave, and more. Sometimes there’s even a raffle to win a spot to conduct the Orchestra! Everyone is encouraged to check out the tabling information provided by the benefiting organization, the live art creations and in general, to be as participatory as possible.

PR and Marketing

Heard about EO? It’s probably due in some part to the efforts of our publicity and marketing team. Dave Weissman is fearless in his output of creative ideas to help spread the word and the good vibes. Dave is a much bigger part of the team than his publicist label implies. www.musicalearth.net Marketing maven Julie van Amerongen brings her years of experience marketing natural lifestyle products, work for record labels and artists and activist dedication to direct the scope of many EO efforts. She also heads up the non-profit side of EO.

Grassroots Promotion

Ryan Messick and Craig Howard at Slipknot Productions have been key in getting the word out about EO shows in the Northwest and at making them happen by presenting them from time to time. www.slipknotproductions.com

Graphic Design and Webwork

Lang Schwartzwald is a talented artist in multiple mediums and he’s also one hell of a graphic designer. The task of making a poster that includes so many diverse artists is a challenge and Lang puts up with the many changes and hurdles along the way in an easygoing manner that is much appreciated. To see more of Lang's work go to: www.ArtDezign.com

Sean Hankins is the newest member of our team, providing his expertise for our website. His work can also be found at www.rvi.net/~sean.

The original EO logo was designed by Evana Gerstman and Julie van Amerongen.

Living Tree Paper

Carolyn Moran and Bob Frankel at Living Tree Paper have been providing tree free paper and printing support for our event posters and paper needs. They are working to create change in the pulp and paper industry; to offer one step on the path to more sensible and sustainable use of resources in the production of basic commodities. www.livingtreepaper.com

Everyone's Drumming

The people at Everyone's Drumming have offered their support of our musical mission. They make incredible hand drums. You can catch Matt playing his onstage with the Everyone Orchestra. www.everyonesdrumming.com

Want to be part of the Everyone team? Drop us an email. Let us know what your area of expertise is and we’ll try to plug you in. Thanks for your support of The Everyone Orchestra.