The Vortex offers Earth Day activities from 5 to 7pm, then welcomes Guy Forsyth Band to the stage from 7 to 10. Powerhouse vocalist Forsyth has been connected to the Vortex since 1990, from playing open mics way back when at its Performance Café on Ben White to opening the new venue with Asylum Street Spankers in 1994, and went on to tour the world and open for such luminaries as Ray Charles, B.B. King, and Lucinda Williams.