“Depaver Jan” Lundberg Sets Sail To Westhaven

“Depaver Jan” Lundberg Sets Sail To Westhaven
Former oil analyst-turned-enviro holds benefit concert for Sail Transport Network

Humboldt Sentinel
11/10/08
By Sentinel Staff

Jan Lundberg, formerly of considerable repute in the local activist community as organizer of the former Alliance for a Paving Moratorium in Arcata, is coming back to town on Saturday, Nov. 22 at the Westhaven Center for the Arts.

A former oil analyst and publisher of The Lundberg Report, Lundberg has since moved on to organize the Sail Transport Network, a grassroots effort to shift long-distance transportation patterns back to an old technology, wind power.

“Depaver Jan,” once the lead singer of the Depavers -- whose 15 minutes of fame were to be had playing their song “Have A Global Warming Day” on National Public Radio -- is on a solo acoustic tour these days with upbeat eco-originals.

Jan invites you to imagine, "Can you picture ocean-based renewable- energy passage and trade, with acoustic music?"

Jan's musical influences include Dana Lyons, Bob Dylan and John Lennon, as well as baroque and Greek. He sailed to Greece when very young, and this resulted in a half-Greek daughter named Spring, known for producing the Hootenanny songbook for activists around the campfire.

Besides “Have a Global Warming Day” Jan will play many of his other activist ditties such as “Get Up and Change the World,” “Green Is The Shelter” and “Against The Law” -- as performed and recorded by The Depavers. Musician friends are apt to join him on stage!

"All my songs come from dreams, for the music and lyrics. The one exception is 'Party On Fossil Fools,' a fun and futuristic rocker with an aspect of The Pixies," Lundberg stated in a release.

Past performances that Depaver Jan has given include spontaneously opening for Country Joe McDonald at People's Park last year in Berkeley for the anniversary of the resistance to the state four decades ago. With Jan on stage on mandolin was Ayr, a depaver and activist who bottom-lined the UC Berkeley tree sit to protect the Memorial Oak Grove (destroyed by the University of California this fall).

Jan has also performed in Mexico City in April for a gathering of environmentalists, and he played a long set in London after his appearance in 2003 as Jan Lundberg the oil analyst at The Institutue of Petroleum two days after two million protesters marched against the impending Iraq War.

Concert goers are encouraged to car pool or take the bus and bicycles!

Tickets are available at a sliding scale of $1 to $100, with snacks and drinks available separately. The show starts promptly at 7:30 p.m. Call 677-9493 to make reservations, and to find out more about the Sail Transport Network, visit www.SailTransportNetwork.org.