As part of National Donate Life Month, members of a student organization that encourages organ donation will host a free concert tonight at the Orange & Brew.
The event, Lifeapalooza, features performances from three artists and speeches from two organ recipients, said Michael Glickman, co-director of Get Carded.
Doors open at 8:30 p.m., and the first of three musical guests, Nicole Christianson, is scheduled to take the stage at 9 p.m. The Matt Hobbs Band will follow.
Glickman said members of Get Carded would also distribute state-approved, organ-donor identification cards to attendees.
He said the organization held another event in fall called "Greeks Get Carded," and this is the second year of "Lifeapalooza."
He expects attendance to be higher this year because Get Carded teamed up with the Reitz Union Board and the American Medical Student Association to offer the concerts.
At about 10:30 p.m., crowd members will form a giant human ribbon symbolizing support for organ donation on the Reitz Union Amphitheatre while donning green T-shirts and glow sticks distributed at the concert.
After the photo-op, the night's headlining band, Umoja Orchestra, will perform and another transplant recipient will speak to the crowd.
Elyssa Winston, a UF recreation and event management junior and one of the night's speakers, received a kidney transplant from her father in January.
Winston, who had kidney problems since she was 13, was on dialysis for a year after her kidney failed in December 2006.
She said her speech would focus on what her life was like before she received her transplant and how the procedure has changed her.
"It's just a transformation for me," she said. "My life before the transplant - always on dialysis. It's been such a huge change for the better."
