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Being green can be fun! Join us for an evening
that celebrates local culture--music, art and organic AGRIculture.
2d Annual Back to the Roots Concert
Saturday, March 1, 6:00 to 10 pm
Museum of New Art (MONA), downtown
Detroit
The 2d Annual Back to the Roots Concert is
a benefit to support local, organic food systems and the work of
Earth Works Garden/Urban Farm Park and the Michigan Organic Food & Farm
Alliance. Hosted by MONA in downtown Detroit's Book Building, at this
year's event you'll hear lively music, view stimulating art and talk
with inspired people who believe in growing, buying and eating local,
organic food that good for people and the earth.
Music will be provided by outstanding blues and folk artists
Robert Jones and Matt Watroba. Robert Jones hosts the program Blues
from the Lowland on Detroit public radio station WDET, and has been voted
as "Detroit's Best Blues Instrumentalist" by the Metro
Times. Matt Watroba hosts the WDET program Folks Like
Us, and has performed as a folk musician for nearly 20
years.
Doors open at 6 pm. Food and drinks will be
available. Advance tickets are $7 per person; $15 for families.
Individual tickets at the door will be $10 per person. MONA is located at
1249 Washington Boulevard, between State and Grand River. Advance tickets
can be ordered by calling Brother Rick Samyn at 313-579-2100, ext.
211.
Back to the Roots is organized by staff and
volunteers who support the Earth Works Garden/Urban Farm Park, a project of the
Capuchin Soup Kitchen in Detroit, and MOFFA, a statewide nonprofit promoting
local organic food systems for healthier communities.
For more information about Earth Works or MOFFA, contact Carol
Osborne, MOFFA, 989-705-7204, or natolga@freeway.net.
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