JEROMESVILLE – Hillsdale High School is sponsoring a student-led concert and charitable event, Kindstock 2018.
Billed as “A Concert for all Falcon-kind,” the show is organized by the Hillsdale Kindness Committee. Committee members say their core message is spreading kindness to others and maintaining unity in the community by celebrating art, music, talent and charity.
“This is the first time we’ve ever done something like this, but we take inspiration from the Woodstock festival of 1969,” said sophomore Ethan Stack, who visited a recent school board meeting with fellow sophomore Logan Leab to share details about the event.
Leab impressed board members and the audience with his rendition of “The Last Thing on My Mind,” and then Stack explained why the kindness committee wants to have a music festival.
“People come from different cultures, families, lands, they hold different beliefs, ideals and morals,” he said. “But throughout history, despite these differences, there’s always seems to be one thing that successfully brought people together, and that one thing is music.”
The event begins at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 21 at Hillsdale High School and will feature performances by local bands including The Blackbirds, Acoustic Edge, Smith Brothers, Kyle Jarvis and IIIrd Generation, County Line, Sobo and Hillsdale’s own teacher-comprised band.
There will also be family-friendly games and activities along with a literacy station to encourage reading, a silent auction, a recycling station and much more.
Food trucks serving Auntie Anne’s Pretzels, French fries and sandwiches will be on site, and all proceeds will go to charity.
Admission is by donation, and all donations will go to the Hillsdale Cares and Appleseed:Hillsdale funds.
“We truly encourage you to go. We think it’s going to be a good time,” Stack said. “We’ve been working hard on organizing it, and we’re going to keep on doing that until we have successfully done it.”
For more information, find Kindstock HHS on Facebook.
