CBM Rally and Benefit Concert
Rally for the Valley
Saturday, March 24 in Smithers
Meet at 11:00 am at the Smithers Library
Citizens Concerned About Coalbed Methane invites everyone to a rally in support of keeping the Bulkley Valley free of coalbed methane development.
The rally will start at the Smithers Library at 11:00 am. Bring your kids, your signs, your costumes, and your good energy.
View photos of last November's rally
CBM Benefit Concert
with Todd Butler and Kim Barlow
Saturday, March 24 at the Della Herman Theatre, Smithers
Doors at 7pm, show at 7:30pm
This promises to be a fantastic show. The money raised will help support our ongoing efforts to keep our valley free of CBM development.
Here is a bit of info about the artists:
Todd Butler
A
veteran of over 20 years of live performing, Comox-based Todd Butler swings
easily from lambasting politicians in hilarious political parodies to interpreting
the latest news stories with a twist. His album “Idle Canadian”
took Album of the Year honors at the recent Vancouver Island Music Awards,
where Todd was also named “Songwriter of the Year” and won the
“Song of the Year” award for the song “Home.” His
2003 instrumental CD (with Doug Cox) was picked one of the year’s
Top Ten by Acoustic Guitar Magazine.
You can listen to some clips of Todd's music on his site.
Kim Barlow
Kim
Barlow’s songs are wry and impassioned, deft distillations of the
beautiful and absurd world she inhabits. Playing guitar and frailing banjo,
Barlow creates complex and unexpected settings for her fables of lost children,
allegories for love and loss, and songs of protest. Kim also writes and
performs music for theatre, dance, storytelling and film.
Kim was born in Montreal, and raised in rural Nova Scotia. She graduated from Florida State University with a BA in music. She taught herself to play the banjo beside a campfire in the Yukon and spent some time exploring a career in horse-logging. From there she embarked on an eccentric musical career that has taken her from Inuvik to the UK; and from Yackandandah, Australia, to the Vancouver Folk Music Festival. Along the way Kim produced 4 CDs and one son. Her second CD, Gingerbread was nominated for a Juno award in 2003 in the roots/traditional category. Her son hasn’t been nominated for any awards yet. He wants to be a museum curator.