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The Nature Place’s 2024 Music on the Marsh concert features special guest, Carrie Newcomer. Carrie holds a variety of titles including songwriter, recording artist, performer, educator, author, and activist. She has released 20 albums, her most recent titled A Great Wild Mercy, released in 2023. In 2009 and 2011 Newcomer was invited by the American Embassy of India to be a cultural ambassador, resulting in her interfaith benefit album Everything is Everywhere with master of the Indian Sarod, Amjad Ali Khan. In 2013 Carrie traveled to Kenya and the Middle East, performing in schools, spiritual communities and hospitals assisting AIDS patients. In 2016 Carrie was awarded an honorary degree in Music for Social Change from Goshen College.
Tickets are $35 presale, $40 at the door, and $50 reserved. Beer and wine will be available for purchase. Get tickets at: https://wiscorps.wufoo.com/forms/m1azxn0j0l1ifgc/
Proceeds from the concert will directly benefit The Nature Place, our nature-based community center in Myrick Park. If you haven’t stopped by to check it out, please visit us soon, as we’ve been working to transform the center into “nature’s living room,” and every is welcome to come and enjoy the space. The Nature Place is a division of WisCorps, and we are excited to share it with you!
The concert is generously sponsored by Prairie Springs: The Paul Fleckenstein Trust, Leithold Music, and Franciscan Spirituality Center.
To listen to Carrie Newcomer and to learn more about her, visit www.carrienewcomer.com.