Bettine Clemen to Perform

 

BETTINE CLEMEN, celebrated International Solo flautist, offers an unusual performance as a benefit concert for Friends of the Garden, the organization that designs and maintains through its volunteers most of the gardens at the Springfield-Greene County Botanical Center and Gardens in Nathanael Greene/Close Memorial Park.

After a long career as a celebrated orchestral and solo flutist and recording artist, Bettine Clemen has made her reputation as a true healer with her unique concert programs. By bringing together images of nature, animals, children and people from all over the planet with her personal interpretation through her flutes, Bettine evokes the healing power of music and is a perfect artist to highlight the healing power of our future Sensory Garden.

Our Sensory Garden will truly be a garden for healing. It will be completely accessible to the disabled. Plants will be specially selected for the senses so that the garden can be appreciated by the blind and partially blind and provide fragrance, taste, touch and feel. It will be a place of peace and beauty with seating capacity to accommodate those who are convalescing from illness. This concert is a fundraiser for our future Sensory Garden and is the finale to our three-day celebration of the first anniversary of the Botanical Center, which opened in October 2010.

The Concert will be at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 16 at the Botanical Center. Seating is limited and tickets will be sold on a fist come first served basis, so make your reservations early.

 

Call the Botanical Center at 417-891-1515 for tickets.