You can find out more about this benefit concert, which features Midnight Roses, Glenn Sutter, Black Drink Crier and the Down Home Boys, here. In a nutshell, though, it’s geared to promoting awareness of the importance of public pastures that the feds recently transferred to provincial control to the prairie eco-system. The concert goes tonight at the Artesian on 13th at 7 p.m. Tickets are $25 advance and $30 door.
Then on June 27 there’s another fundraising event to promote conservation of prairie grasslands called Prairie Passages Dinner. It features guest-speakers Margaret Atwood (pictured) and her partner and fellow novelist Graeme Gibson, and goes at the Hotel Saskatchewan at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $100, and can be obtained by calling 306-525-6400.
Has old Margie ever seen a pasture?
@Indy 500, FYI:
A. She goes by Peggy not Margie.
B. She grew up in the backwoods of Northern Ontario and Quebec.
C. There are pastures in the backwoods of Ontario and Quebec.
D. She used be called “Peggy Nature”, there is a portrait of her by C. Pachter that bears this name.
E. There are pastures in nature.