PUTNEY — “Walkin' The Talk” is a concert to benefit efforts to bring asylum seekers to Vermont from border detention centers. The event will be held on Saturday, March 30, at 7 p.m., at the The Putney Quaker Meeting House, 17 Bellows Falls Rd.
According to a news release, Putney Quaker Meeting is working together with the Community Asylum Seekers Project to bring an individual or family seeking asylum, but currently being held for lack of a sponsor in a Texas detention center, to Putney.
The benefit will feature musical offerings from Vermont Timbre (Amelia Struthers and Mike Mrowicki), Big Woods Trio (featuring Amanda Whitman, Alan Blood, and Will Danforth. Usual member Becky Graber is unavailable for this show).
There will also be an update from the Mexican border from Liv Berelson, a Quaker from Doylestown, Pa., with ties to the Putney meeting. Berelson has been working at the border with Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, a Texas-based group supporting those emerging from detention.
Vermont Timbre will feature songs from their new CD, Songs To Light the Way. They call this collection of songs “a balm for the spirit, a respite from life's whitewater rapids into a quiet pool of cool, deep water.”
Big Woods Voices Trio unites three veteran area singers in celebrating their common passion for a cappella harmony through arrangements of original, roots, and world music.