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Bridport Refugee Support Campaign
presents
Joe Solo
plus Dorset Red & Dylan Ross
Bridport Refugee Support Campaign will be bringing acclaimed singer songwriter Joe Solo to Dorset in May for a fundraising event.
Joe Solo is an award-winning musician, writer, poet, activist, broadcaster and washing machine engineer from Scarborough. His musical odyssey began in 1987 fronting a bash-em-out band at school, and has seen him play nine countries either as lynchpin of pop-punk upstarts Lithium Joe or hammering out his unique brand of Folk, Punk and Blues in his own right.
Though known to audiences across Dorset through his performances at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, and being one of the lead lights behind the We Shall Overcome grassroots community support initiative, this is Joe’s first visit to Bridport - and a night not to miss.
The show will be raising funds for Bridport Refugee Support Campaign and Dorset TUC and its work to support refugees in the town.
Supporting Joe on the night will be Bridport’s socialist choir, Dorset Red, and Bridport's very own radical poet, Dylan Ross.
Musician and 6 Music DJ Tom Robinson said about Joe after seeing him at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival: “I heard this noise coming off the stage, I went WOW, whoever that is I’ve got to go and check him out and there was just this one man on the stage blowing up a storm with an acoustic guitar!”
Joe Solo
Joe Solo is an award winning musician, writer, poet, activist and broadcaster from Scarborough.
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Dorset Red
The Dorset Red Choir is a group of people in Bridport, Dorset who sing songs about social and political protest at events like trade unions, environmental protests, and anti-racist demonstrations. The choir is made up of a diverse group of people with progressive and socialist leanings. They are open to new members without auditions and hope to participate in national initiatives with other network choirs.
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Dylan Ross
Dylan Ross is a poet and performer, built from equal parts love and anger, on a mission to bring people together and tear old inequalities and injustices apart; all with the simple tools of words wrapped in honesty and humour. Dylan has been gigging extensively as a performance poet since 2019 and has built up a reputation for high energy and inclusive punk-tinged sets.
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