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  Pre-Memorial Event for Keiko at the Oregon Coast Aquarium
Who: Keiko's Legacy Tour Staff & The Free Willy Keiko Foundation What: Pre-memorial event for Keiko at the Oregon Coast Aquarium When: February 20, 2004; from 6:30 to 8pm Where: Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, Oregon  DETAILS: Keiko was the second longest living captive male orca in history, and the very first Orca whale to swim free in his homeland waters for five years following his captivity. Singer-songwriter and producer for Joshua Records, Theresa Demarest, has been invited by Pat Hebling, interim president at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, to give a short presentation on behalf of the Free Willy Keiko Foundation and Keiko's Legacy Tour. Theresa Demarest will also present a short DVD trailer of Keiko swimming free in the open ocean. The film footage, originally shot by the Free Willy Keiko Foundation Staff, is being developed into the science presentation part of Keiko's Legacy Tour. (formerly Keiko's Dream Tour)THE TOUR: Keiko's Legacy Tour is in development with Mark Berman, Associate Director of the Free Willy Keiko Foundation in San Francisco and Singer-songwriter, Theresa Demarest, in Portland Oregon. Over the last several years, Mark Berman and Theresa Demarest & Good Company have presented what was known as Keiko's Dream Tour for many communities and schools throughout the Pacific Northwest. Keiko's Legacy Tour will continue as a concert and marine mammal science program. The event utilizes the collaborative talents of musicians, composers, visual artists, and professional scientists. Together they create an educational, visually inspiring, audience involving event, designed to connect the audience to the music, and the science of becoming a voice for the planet, a voice for the ocean, and a continuing voice for Keiko's legacy. THE MUSIC: : MARCH 2001 Portland, OR The Oregonian, Staff Writer, Katy Muldoon wrote: KEIKO'S DREAM: An Orca's Tribute Theresa Demarest came eye-to-eye with the famed whale and came away with a mission. Keiko, the orca formerly known as Willy in the 1993 Warner Bros. Film "Free Willy", is not, of course, on stage at Jefferson High School this frigid February day. It just sounds as if he is when electric guitar riffs squeal in a remarkably realistic rendition of whale vocalizations. When the drums tap-tap-tap, the clicks of an orca call. When piano notes whisper, crest and crash, (it sounds) like a killer whale breaching at sea. Together, they form an instrumental jazz tune titled 'Keiko's Dream.' Together, they illustrate Theresa Demarest's awakening as a musician with a message -- a singer-songwriter who yearns to be a voice for the oceans and, especially, a voice for Keiko."
All materials and programs produced by Theresa Demarest & Joshua Records for Keiko's Legacy benefit The Free Willy Keiko Foundation.
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