Council Member Issues Call for A-Listers to Help Record City Production

• Colleagues Give 10 Days to Set Up

Councilmember Pamela Conley Ulich looked into the camera at last week’s quarterly council meeting and asked, “Barbra, are you listening,” which prompted Mayor Pro Tem Sharon Barovsky to say to no one in particular, “I doubt she’s on Channel 3.”
Undaunted, Conley Ulich said perhaps Barbra Streisand, Bob Dylan and other local musical icons would be willing to step forward and show their commitment to the environment by participating in a kind of “We Are the People” of Malibu recording project the day after Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, to try to “make a million dollars” for Legacy Park.
An unenthused Barovsky said setting up the recording studio at the new city hall would cost a minimum of $10,000, and the council shouldn’t authorize the expenditure “without better planning and knowing whether anyone will even show up.”
In a post meeting announcement, Conley Ulich broadened the objective of the recording session to helping the ocean. She said, “The ‘plastic garbage patch’ in the Pacific Ocean has grown to about double size of Texas according to scientists last month.” She wants to get the word to “local musical A-listers” that “with [their] help, the City of Malibu can raise awareness and funds to combat ocean pollution. We have banned plastic bags, cigarettes on the beach, supported getting a Marine Protected Area, and begun building Legacy Park in Malibu, but we need to engage the world in our crusade to combat ocean pollution.”
The council member said, “The City of Malibu recently purchased the Malibu Performing Arts center where talent such as Tom Petty and Sting have performed and recorded, [and I have] 10 days to try to get a commitment from Malibu’s most talented musicians to come together the day after Thanksgiving to record a song in our new City Hall, which will be heard around the world.”
She told the local entertainment community at large, “You are blessed with talent. You have and can use that gift to draw attention to this issue and raise funds to continue our clean water efforts. I know you are busy; I know your plates are [full]; I know you have other commitments; [All we ask is] 10 minutes you could carve away from your time.”