Been waiting to see how this event unfolds. Now it is finally here this weekend. Seems an odd mix:
This year Charlotte Pop Fest will celebrate the life of Charles Darwin and all proceeds from the event will benefit the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science. The year 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book The Origin of Species.
I’m all for reason, science, and rock — some pop even — but there is precious little evolved thought in the most primal forms of rock. And that’s a good thing. Then again, maybe it is a good thing precisely because it allows us to step outside our rationality for a bit.
