Concerts Don't Cost The Earth

The Environmental Concert Series which supports live music and the planet at the same time!

This time raising funds for local organisations CREOS and SHIFT With Musical Duo Gibbon & Goldfinch

Duo Gibbon & Goldfinch - aka Marcus Decker and Holly Cullen-Davies met running protest song workshops. They are singers, multi-instrumentalists, activists, curators and entertainers.

For this concert at Karamel Marcus and Holly will perform a range of pieces from J.S. Bach to Nina Simone and Claude Debussy to Joni Mitchell.

Concerts Don’t Cost the Earth brings together musicians, hosts and audiences in convivial settings where everyone is included. Expect to be surprised, to laugh and possibly cry, to learn something new and to make new friends.

Profits from the evening will go towards two different environmental projects. During the interval break you’ll have a chance to find out more about them and to vote for which one you’d like to support.

Doors open at 6.30pm, with food on offer before the performance. You are then warmly invited to stay and socialise until the pay bar closes at 11pm.

Food and drink available from 6:30pm Starts at 7:30pm

Marcus Decker studied at Leipzig University and then trained as a jazz singer at the Budapest Conservatory in Hungary. He has busked and hitchhiked through over 40 different countries and sailed across the Atlantic to Dominica in 2017. As an activist in climate emergency mode he hung a banner over the QE2 bridge in 2022 and spent the following 16 months in prison for it, where he also set up and ran a choir for other prisoners called Singing Makes It Better. He is fighting deportation by the Home Office.

Holly Cullen-Davies trained as a pianist at the Royal Northern College of Music and The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She also sings in her family vocal trio Davies & Daughters whose debut album you can listen to here. Holly founded Concerts Don't Cost the Earth in 2021. Over the last few years she has been active in the climate movement and working against Marcus's deportation order by giving interviews on radio, television and for newspapers.

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