This weekend, Wisconsin native-turned Valley local Jeffrey Foucault (pictured left) and his partner Kris Delmhorst (pictured right) co-headline a benefit concert for the Franklin Land Trust to support the non-profit organization’s fight against the proposed Kinder-Morgan pipeline through northern Mass., including Franklin County.
“When I moved out here from the Midwest, I was homesick as hell and the rivers were the only place I felt right. I fish about 60 days each year, and the majority of them I spend on the Deerfield, the North, the South, and the Bear,” Foucault says of the land where he and Delmhorst have raised their daughter. “These watersheds lie right in the path of the proposed pipeline.”
The pipeline, continues Foucault, “puts near-term private profit ahead of long-term public interest — the very idea of commonwealth — and imperils wild lands and rivers.”
Rusty Belle and Abe Loomis are also scheduled to perform.
Dec. 27, 7:30 p.m., $25, Memorial Hall, 51 Bridge St., Shelburne Falls, (413) 341-3317, www.parlorroommusic.com.
