''Escarpment Blues'' is a

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concert and documentary film starring singer-songwriter

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."From the heart as Harmer traces bluegrass trail". ''

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'', August 17, 2006. Directed by Andy Keen and produced by Keen, Harmer, Bryan Bean and Patrick Sambrook, it was released theatrically in 2006. In June 2005, Harmer launched a tour, called I Love the Escarpment, across southern Ontario to promote Protecting Escarpment Rural Land (PERL), a conservation group she cofounded to battle a proposed

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development on the

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near her hometown of

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. Harmer toured communities near the escarpment, both performing and speaking about the PERL campaign. The film documents both her live performances and her activist work from the tour, and takes its name from "Escarpment Blues", a song from her 2005 album ''

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''. Poet

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also participated in the PERL tour and appears in the film. ''Escarpment Blues'' won the award for Best Music DVD at the

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."And the winners are...". ''

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'', April 2, 2007.

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