An ‘emergency’ music festival showcasing music across Southampton has been announced to raise funds for Ukraine, with organisers appealing to venues, performers – even barbers’ shops – to get involved and self-organise.
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In a video by Martin Perry from Music in the City, he encourages performers and venues to liaise with each other, list their events in a central place and put on performances between March 28 and April 3 to raise money and supplies to go to the Ukraine.
Organisers can also help connect venues and performers if necessary, although time is short, he stresses.
“We can all do something. If you’re a musician it’s obvious. If you’re a venue, it’s obvious. But everybody can do something: if you’re a bar, a barber’s shop … if you’ve got a staff room, if you’ve got a guitar – just go out, dress up as a pop star. It doesn’t matter. What we want to do is to raise money. And this will be brilliant. And I’d love you to get involved.”
A long list of venues have so far confirmed their involvement from Dancing Man and Stage Door to Mettricks, London Brew House, The Alexandra and The 1865.
Watch the video above for more information, and make contact with the team and other performers and venues via the Music in the City Facebook page.
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