A salon that explores the power of music in contemporary
history and creates a safe place for students to talk
about war, environment, fears, hopes and their future.
Biography
Tom Acousti's The Power of Song and Personal Choice. This is an amazing and powerful way to bring your campus community together. It's part lecture, part town hall/community forum, where activist/teacher/songwriter Tom Acousti creates an environment where students talk about the issues of the day. The show starts with a discussion of the role music, art and media have played in elections and in political thought, and the use of live music is entertaining, but also helps create a really comfortable environment where students open up about their thoughts, fears and hopes far more than they normally would. Then Tom takes them into the realm of personal choice and their voice and the issues of the day. This town hall paired with a elements of a concert of topical music in the vein of Lennon or Guthrie is a great way to get students talking in a productive and safe environment about issues in the world...and to find themselves entertained in the same evening.
* This event can be tailored a bit to support Voter Registration activities. Tom will steer conversations about personal choice into the realm of finding and exercising their voice.
Tom Acousti's Back ground:
After an adolescence filled with rock-band and community/professional theater stage experience, Acousti moved to Los Angeles to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Four years later he returned to New England with recording engineer/producer credentials and a handful of original songs.
Since then, Acousti has lived in New York City and Nashville, released six albums. performed thousands of shows ranging from solo acoustic to full band productions, toured nationwide, performed repeatedly on national television, and moved thousands of hearts by living his autobiography on stage, in song. He has the #1 music act touring colleges in the past and the veteran of major label record deals. He has also worked as a teacher, activist, and producer. He has taught on all issues related to the writing and production of music, as well as the role and history of the media.
The CD release, "Bloom" has been made available as a free gift to hundreds by way of the ‘Buy One, Give Two Free’ program sharing the music in the name of the late Army Sgt. Kenneth R. Hobson II, killed in the Kenyan bombing. The powerful title song written for the toddler and unborn baby Hobson left behind has been gifted to hundreds of children who have lost parents in military and political actions.
