Not only is she a fantastic singer-songwriter, Sarah Harmer also recently embarked on a tour to help bring attention to the plight of the Niagara Escarpment, the most prominent topographical feature of the southern part of Ontario. that hosts old forests, headwaters and important local diversity.

In 1999 UNESCO designated the region a World Biosphere Reserve which should have afforded the area even more protection but Toronto’s sprawl is still encroaching. Harmer organized the ‘I Love The Escarpment’ tour to protest an application for an 82-hectare limestone quarry on the north bluffs of the sensitve Escarpment lands at the singer-songwriter’s hometown of Burlington, Ontario (yes, this is a very local story…but a good one).

And she has a new cd out too - I’m A Mountain. Great reviews.

Photo credit: SarahHarmer.com