The ASUCD is using music to help build community — and a green community at that! The occasion is the Music on the Green concert, a free event with two stages, from 5 to 8 p.m. May 22 at Central Park, Third and C streets, Davis.

“We hope to promote city and campus relations and environmental advocacy, by having environmentally conscious entertainers, booths for city and campus advocacy groups, and zero-waste efforts,” said Andrew Carstens, a first-year student majoring in international agriculture development, with Spanish as a minor.

“By inviting local artists, we are supporting the Davis community and decreasing the concert's overall carbon footprint,” said Carstens, who is an intern with the ASUCD’s Campus Center for the Environment.

The other sponsors: The ASUCD’s Environmental Planning and Policy Commission, External Affairs Commission, and Entertainment Council; the California Public Interest research Group, or CalPIRG; and Tandem Properties.

Four out of the six acts are from Davis. The guests are the headliner, Thao Nguyen (Thao With the Get Down Stay Down, and spiritual activist AshEl from Oakland.

Here is the lineup:

STAGE A

• 5 p.m. — Lounge Lizards, the longest-running a cappella group at UC Davis.

• 5:30 p.m. — Seamoose, Davis-based band, performing funk, reggae, soul and rock.

• 6:20 p.m. — David Ronconi from Davis, and friends, performing rock, blues, pop. myspace.com/davidronconi

STAGE B

• 5:10 p.m. — Boxes, from Davis.

• 5:50 p.m. — AshEl (Ashel Eldridge), spoken word and rap, and singer with hip-hop, dub, reggae and electronica bands, including Wisdom and Bassnectar. The Oakland-based Eldridge is known as a spiritual activist, addressing social, economic and environmental justice.

• 7 p.m. — Thao With the Get Down Stay Down, fronted by Thao Nguyen, singer-songwriter out of Virginia. Albums: Know Better Learn Faster (2010) and We Brave Bee Stings (2008).