My name is Amanda Mora, and I am about to bike over 5000 miles through Europe with the Pleasant Revolution, a bicycle music tour that demonstrates how bands can tour independently, without cars, trucks, or vans by carrying our own equipment and putting on amazing musical shows with 100% bicycle-generated electricity. We depart on a ship from New York City on May 21st and will be overseas through October, 2010. We will have a collective tour blog at www.pleasantrevolution.net which will be full of great content and frequent updates from the members of the crew.
I (Amanda Mora) am a singer/songwriter and will be headlining as one of the five core bands on this tour. I am particularly proud to be one of only two Texans (fifth generation Austonian in fact!) representing on this tour. I will be using this amandamora.wordpress for my online journal while on tour and away from my home computer. And if you are just discovering more about my store and music, be sure to visit my home website at www.amandamora.com
Now, back to the Pleasant Revolution; We are united behind the goal of spreading environmental awareness while creating new, diverse, and exciting musical experiences. In collaboration with local bicycle advocates and musicians in each city we visit, we create free Bicycle Music Festivals using a 1200W pedal-powered PA system we carry on our cargo bicycles. We prop up the rear wheels of our bikes, engage generators, and audience members join us on stage pedaling the bicycles to generate all the electricity for the sound system, bringing new meaning to the term “audience participation!”
More than a bike tour or music festival, this is a new movement for an evolving culture of transportation cycling, renewable power, and greener music/community events. We aim to lighten up the view of a sustainable lifestyle—from one of sacrifice and restriction to one of abundant health, happiness, and a deeper sense of connectedness; thus it is the Pleasant Revolution. The technology behind our tour, much of which we ourselves developed, is open source. We share it to spark the advent of more pedal powered community events and to teach individuals how to transform their lives by using a bicycle for power and transportation.
AMANDA MORA LINKS:
www.amandamora.com
www.myspace.com/amandamora
PLEASANT REVOLUTION LINKS:
- Our home website: http://www.pleasantrevolution.net
- ReverbNation press kit for streaming music and artist bios:http://www.reverbnation.com/pleasantrevolution
- Fan us on Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/The-Pleasant-Revolution-Bicycle-Music-Festival-Tour/10150095448670716?ref=ts
- Four minute electronic press kit video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZbAIiTZ9bk
