Event

Wilderness Ballads

The premiere performance of a new collaboration between author Scott Russell Sanders and some of Indiana's best-known folk singers will be the presented at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 8, at the Brown County High School auditorium.

"Wilderness Ballads" features Sanders' stories of frontier life in the Midwest in the early 1800s, as seen through his books "Wilderness Plots" and "Bad Man Ballad." Sanders' narration of his work will be interspersed with original songs inspired by the books and written by a group of 10 musicians led by singer-songwriter Tim Grimm of Columbus, organizer of the original "Wilderness Plots" project in 2007.

The March 8 concert will feature some of those songs, but also will incorporate new stories, songs, songwriters and musicians. And since there are no immediate plans for a repeat performance, the show may represent the only opportunity to hear this new collaboration.

The concert is a project of the Brown County Literacy Coalition, and is the culmination of the annual Community Book Read. The third annual community reading project, co-sponsored by the Brown County Public Library, is centered on "Wilderness Plots." All profits from the show will help fund coalition activities, which are focused on the education of children in Brown County under the age of 5.