(upbeat music) - Salty Jams is a community concert celebrating the Great Salt Lake and its rivers featuring original works by local artists.

Joining us is Sarah May artist, poet, and community organizer with Making Waves Artist Collaborative.

Hi, Sarah.

- Hi.

Thanks for having me.

- Oh, it's so fun to have you.

And what a cool concept.

And I love the idea of a Salty Jams concert.

- Yeah.

We wanted it just to be like a really fun, chill vibe where it's like, bring your blankets, your chairs, your picnics, and just enjoy some original music and made in devotion to Great Salt Lake and to our, the rivers that feed into the lake.

- So what is it about, I mean, you're a community organizer and so you wanted to do a community concert.

What is it about the Great Salt Lake right now that is kind of motivating you?

- Yeah, so as you've probably heard, as a lot of us have probably heard, the water is receding in Great Salt Lake due to many, many reasons, both like with climate change and water usage.

And so the work that I do as an artist and organizer with Making Waves Artists Collaborative is just bringing awareness and showing love and devotion for Great Salt Lake as a sacred water body to protect.

And this is a musical celebration of the lake.

And so it's love and devotion for Great Salt Lake, for her species, for the life-giving entity that she is, and also the rivers.

This concert is a part of "Get To The River Festival" hosted by the Jordan River Commission, so this is gonna be a part of that.

So we're also honoring Pia Okwai, which is Jordan River, in Shoshone, Goshute.

So yeah, it's gonna be a really lovely event just full of music and movement and just honoring these sacred water bodies.

- Yeah.

And it's so fitting that you have it outside and it's at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center.

- Yes.

- Well, thank you so much for coming to tell us about it.

- Yeah, thank you so much.

It's Yep.

Come and join us.

- Yeah.

If you would like to learn more about the Salty Jams concert and where you can get information about when to show up, it's again, it's from the Making Waves Artist Collaborative, and it's a community concert for the Great Salt Lake.

It happens September 12th, doors open at 6:00 PM.

It is outdoors at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center.

Learn more at makingwavesartistcollaborative.. That's makingwavesartistcollaborative.. (upbeat music) I'm Laura Durham.

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