1. At the age of 17, Sarah Harmer was invited to join a Toronto band, The Saddletramps.
16 Facts About Sarah Harmer
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Also in 1998, Sarah Harmer recorded a set of pop standards as a Christmas gift for her father.
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Sarah Harmer began working on another album, and in 2000, she released You Were Here.
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Sarah Harmer has appeared as a guest vocalist on albums by other artists, including Blue Rodeo, Great Big Sea, Rheostatics, Bruce Cockburn, Luther Wright and the Wrongs, Loomer, Skydiggers, The Weakerthans, Neko Case, Great Lake Swimmers, The Tragically Hip and Bob Wiseman.
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In 2010, Sarah Harmer released a fifth album, Oh Little Fire, which was nominated for three Juno Awards.
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In 2011, Sarah Harmer participated in the National Parks Project, visiting British Columbia's Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site with Bry Webb, Jim Guthrie and filmmaker Scott Smith.
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Sarah Harmer was commissioned by CBC Radio 2 to write an original campfire song for the network.
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That year Sarah Harmer performed at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival.
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In 2018, Sarah Harmer contributed the song "Just Get Here" to the compilation album The Al Purdy Songbook.
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In 2005, Sarah Harmer co-founded PERL, an organization which campaigned to protect the Niagara Escarpment from a proposed gravel development which would see some parts of wilderness near the escarpment removed.
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Sarah Harmer coauthored a book about the campaign, The Last Stand: A Journey Through the Ancient Cliff-Face Forest of the Niagara Escarpment, which was published in 2007.
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Sarah Harmer has performed and canvassed in support of the NDP and politician Marilyn Churley, who promoted the protection of the Niagara Escarpment.
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Sarah Harmer has performed in support of Ontario Green Party Leader and MPP Mike Schreiner.
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In January 2022, Sarah Harmer helped launch the Reform Gravel Mining Coalition with co-chair Graham Flint.
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At the Juno Awards of 2025, Sarah Harmer was presented with the Juno Humanitarian Award in honour of her environmental activism.
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In 2007, Sarah Harmer reunited with Weeping Tile to record a song, "Public Square", for the Rheostatics tribute album The Secret Sessions.