Northern Sky will be supporting the next Folk Delivering Hope Concert on Sunday October 10th at the Regent Hotel in Doncaster. Featuring: Girlyman, Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo, Anthony John Clarke, Winter Wilson, Holly Taymar, Rebekah Findlay and Fabian Holland. MC Allan Wilkinson.
This latest Folk Delivering Hope concert followed the first successful AHS Foundation benefit concert last year, where such artists as Clive Gregson, Jez Lowe, Ray Hearne, Steve Womack and Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts gave their time and effort, not to mention memorable performances, to support this dedicated team headed by fund-raising co-ordinator Eileen Myles, to help victims of the tragic Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan. Almost a year on, this latest concert was set up by Eileen, once again under the banner of Folk Delivering Hope, with a little help from a small band of friends and helpers, including a bunch of musicians and the local music promoter and enthusiast Hedley Jones, all giving their time freely to help this worthwhile cause.
It was a moment of inspiration when folk DJ Tony Hitchcock of Sine FM pointed out to fundraising co-ordinator Eileen Myles of the AHS Foundation, that with such an array of talent due to play at a forthcoming Doncaster charity concert in aid of earthquake victims in Kashmir, there must be an opportunity to compile a fund raising CD to bring in much needed additional funds. With Jez Lowe, Clive Gregson, Ray Hearne, Steve Womack and Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts already onboard for the concert, the potential for an interesting CD was almost certainly on the cards.
The Regent Hotel is perfectly situated in the centre of Doncaster and provides an ideal setting for a major charity event both in terms of its location and its own musical heritage. The Hallgate/South Parade junction was heaving with traffic at lunchtime today as motorists slowed down to witness the last few remaining hours in the life of the Gaumont Theatre right next door. As diggers of various sizes reduced the old place to rubble, the ghost of Lonnie Donegan was no doubt felt by some of the older onlookers, recalling the night the Skiffle King recorded My Old Man's A Dustman live on that very stage in 1960, the recording of which was released as a single and which went on to sell over a million copies. Then there was the theatre's relationship with The Beatles who played there no less than three times in 1963 before Beatlemania stormed America. There was an air of sadness as I watched the bricks fall to the ground heralding the end of an era.
