U. P. CD aids anti-mining effort
By Steve Seymour
January 16, 2007
Internationally renown musician Greg Brown knows the power and purpose of folk music.
His “Yellow Dog” album, drawn from an Aug. 26, 2005 performance at the historic W. C. Peterson Auditorium in Ishpeming, describes a way of life in the Upper Peninsula being threatened by a proposed metallic sulfide mine in northern
The folk singer routinely fishes the
Recently, Rebecca Humphries, director of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, announced the agency was delaying a decision on the permits requested by Kennecott until more information could be obtained.
Regardless of the outcome, Brown has used the best traditions of folk music to make an eloquent point in an effort to preserve an irreplaceable part of the