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Iʼm raising £5,000 to help Colne Blues Society stage the Great British Rhythm & Blues Festival
- Colne, Lancashire
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A Superb Community Festival With A 34 Year History...
Hello, my name is Simon Shackleton and I volunteer for a not-for-profit organisation called Colne Blues Society. Colne Blues Society is the Artistic Director of the Great British Rhythm & Blues Festival which takes place in the lovely Lancashire mill town of Colne every year on the August Bank Holiday weekend. The festival has been in existence since 1990 with just 2 years lost to the covid pandemic. It is one of the largest and longest-running community-based music festivals in Europe, attracting nearly 30,000 visitors in 2023.
Every year a combination of ticket sales, fund-raising and sponsorship brings some of the the finest R&B talent in the UK and beyond to our main stages, while the substantial cost of the festival infrastructure is met by Colne Town Council.
Of course, costs only ever go up and we cannot assume that the local authority investment will always be there. The festival has already been under threat more than once because of rising costs and the only way to guarantee its future is to move increasingly towards a self-funded model.
Every penny raised by this campaign will be reinvested by Colne Blues Society into the promotion, programming and running of the Great British Rhythm & Blues Festival. It will help us to secure the long term future of this Colne Community institution, which has helped and inspired so many local musicians and which greatly benefits the local economy.
Moving forward Colne Blues Society hopes to continue to grow the festival and expand our work into local music educational programmes, community initiatives, and partnerships with other local organisations. With your help this much-loved event will thrive for another 34 years, whilst achieving some real benefit for the fantastic community that hosts it.
Thank you, and much love. Shack.
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Nicola Boardman
Aug 16, 2024
£10.00
Robin Hargreaves
Jul 17, 2024
£50.00
Barry Rawstron
Jul 17, 2024
Supporting the Great British Rhythm and Blues festival, and Colne blues society 🇬🇧🎸✌️
Ann Allsopp
Feb 22, 2024
In memory of my nephew Leon O’Neill
£20.00
John Munteanu
Dec 25, 2023
Great festival, amazing team!
£50.00
Kyle Hall
Dec 25, 2023
Thankyou for keeping the blues alive!!
£50.00
Mat Arnold
Dec 23, 2023
Thanks for all the amazing work you do to keep the local music scene thriving.
£100.00
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