Guerilla Busking at Futuresonic
Jonathan from Single Cell Collective has been in touch about an event they’re organising as part of Futuresonic 2009:
Guerilla Busking is a series of urban musical interventions taking place from midday on Friday 15 May 2009 around Manchester city centre. We are inviting musicians to take part in the project supported by Refugee Action, which will raise awareness and money for destitute, street homeless refugees in Manchester.
We’re looking for people to do 15-25 minute sets at unconventional, hidden and public locations all over Manchester city centre. Some people are playing using mobile, battery powered amps others accapella or acoustic.
Over a dozen artists are expected to get involved, from acoustic (inevitably) to experimental electronica, from Manchester-based musicians to refugee community artists. Futuresonic suggests that this flash mob event could involve ‘a beat box rave on the site of the old Hacienda and a Somali refugee band playing traditional music at the Royal Exchange’, for example.
If you want to play or would like to help out in any way then email the collective by 21 April. And for more about what they do, visit their website – or read the Q&A they did with us in February.
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