-
AllAnytime Fitness Gym Art Beer Of The Week Blog Bus Fares Bus Service Business Business Expo C2C Care Care Home Charity Children Christmas Cinema City Status Cliffs Pavilion Cliffs Pavilion Review Cocktail Recipes College Community Competition Construction Coronation Coronavirus Dannielle Emery Design Easter Education Emma Smith Employment Emsella Chair Environment Essex & Suffolk Water News Essex Police Essex Wildlife Trust News Events Family Fun Fashion Festival Film Finance Fitness Food Food & Drink Football Foulness Bike Ride Fresh Face Pillow Company Gardening General Election Hair & Beauty Halloween Harp Havens Hospice Havens Hospices Havens Hospices Health & Fitness Health & Beauty Health & Fitness Healthwatch Southend Historicaleigh History Holidays Housing Indian Indirock Jubilee Karen Harvey Conran Kids Kids Blogs Kids Competitions Kids Reviews Lazydays Festival Legal Legal Eagle Leigh Art Trail Leigh Folk Festival Leigh Library Leigh On Sea Finds Leigh Road Leigh Town Council Leigh Town Council Press Release Leigh on Sea Leigh on Sea Sounds Leigh on sea Folk Festival Leigh on sea Town Council Leigh on sea man breaks marathon record Leigh on sea news Lifestyle Livewell Southend Press Release LoS Shop London London Southend Airport Los Shop Marathon Melinda Giles Mortgage Angel blog Mortgages Motherofalloutings Mughal Dynasty Music My Mortgage Angel MyLoS NHS News News Newsletter Offers Outfit Of The Week Palace Theatre Parenting Parking Pets Picture Of The Week Pier Politics Press Release Press Release Southend City Council Professional Property Property Of The Week RSPCA Ray Morgan Re:loved Recipes Recycling Restaurant Restaurant Review Restaurants Review Roads Rotary Club Royal Hotel Royal Visit SAVS Schools Seafront Shopping Shows & Music Review Shows & Music Shows & Music Review Southend Southend Airport Southend Borough Council Press Release Southend City Bid News Southend City Council Southend City Council Press Release Southend City Council Press Release Southend Community Safety Southend Hospital News Southend In Sight Southend In Sight Southend In Sight Press Release Southend on Sea Sport The Mortgage Mum The One Love Project The Ship Hotel Theatre Theatre Blog Theatre Review Theatre review Transport Travel Veolia Village Green Volunteer Weddings Whats On
New folk album to support Southend YMCA
June 2018 sees the release of 'A Place to Dwell', a compilation of new folk and experimental music, curated by Leigh-on-Sea resident Diana Collier (The Owl Service, Greanvine, Rif Mountain record label, Leigh Folk Festival, Ship Full of Bombs radio). It features an array of great contributors including Alasdair Roberts, Alex Neilson and Lavinia Blackwall (Alex Rex and Trembling Bells) Sharron Kraus (with Jon Boden and Fay Hield providing backing vocals), and Nancy Wallace.
With the photography for the project donated by Leigh-on-Sea's Steven Collins of The Owl Service and all artists donating the tracks at no cost (many of which are previously unreleased), all profits will go straight to Southend YMCA, a small local charity which works with vulnerable and at-risk young people.
Diana Collier not only works for the YMCA, but has a strong connection with the folk world as she is the member of several folk bands, and her husband is Paul Collier, Artistic Director of Leigh Folk Festival.
The YMCA is a charity close to Southend's heart:
Homelessness among children and young people in Southend is increasing in the same way as it has nationally, especially for vulnerable young people who are care leavers or who have experienced trauma. Southend YMCA provides supported accommodation for 16 – 25-year-olds and is working towards the provision of a new children’s home for younger children.
It provides mentoring and coaching for young people who may or may not be homeless but have different needs ranging from psychological and emotional problems springing from abuse or trauma to a simple lack of self-confidence. It has a fully equipped music studio which works on projects with young people from the town. It also runs an alternative provision free school.
A launch event for the album will be part of Leigh Folk Festival on Friday, June 22nd, 2018 7.15 – 11 pm @Twenty One Café, Pier Hill, Southend on Sea.
The following artists have been confirmed as performing at the event:
Circle/Temple (Dom Cooper from the Owl Service and The Straw Bear Band)
Goodnight Crow (Kate Waterfield and Daniel Forbes)
CDs £10 / downloads £8, A Place to Dwell can be downloaded or pre-ordered here
ADD A COMMENT
Note: If comment section is not showing please log in to Facebook in another browser tab and refresh.