OC Quakestock: a music festival with one simple caveat: at least one member of the band must live and/or work in Orange County. Goal: An annual event that will grow in size and attendance, but holds true to its roots: To give Orange County musicians the chance to get together on one stage for an afternoon of music. What better way to spend the last days of summer with music, friends, and neighbors
. We’ll have staff to vender and/or give away; promotional CDs, t-shirts, stickers, and posters. We’ll organize small musical promotional performances, sell food and drink at events, showcase band media samples. Our plan is to service the community through educating, entertaining, and equipping the public for disaster preparedness. Ask for donations from vendors, but not mandatory for first year’s festival to keep with the free mentality. The timing is finally right for us to launch our mission, and to focus on the development of staff and brand recognition. Right now it’s very trendy to have emergency preparation. Television shows such as; Doomsday Preppers lasting 2 years on the air being a testament to this, A wave of disaster preparation began after the September 11, 2001 attacks and subsequent bombings in Bali, Madrid, and London. This resurgence of interest in disaster preparation appears to be as strong as the first wave in the 1970s. The fear of war, avian influenza, energy shortages, environmental disasters and global climate change, coupled with economic uncertainty, and the apparent vulnerability of humanity after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, has once again made disaster preparation popular. Preparedness is once more a paramount concern to many people who seek to stockpile supplies, gain useful skills, and develop contacts with like-minded people to learn as much as possible.