featuring.....

cult-status Scottish folk artist
Alasdair Roberts

Weird and shambolic ... elemental and natural ... beautiful, literate and compelling.
Whatever that elusive X-factor is, Ali Roberts has it. - BBC

phenomenal Fiddle-Singer
Elle Osborne

“Elle Osborne is the future of the tradition” - Auckland Folk Festival 
“Raw and compelling, passionate and engaging” - Time Out

poets
Judith Kazantzis
Palestinian activist and winner of the 2007 Cholmondeley Award for Poetic Achievement
'sensuous and bold border crossings...' - Enitharmon Press

Naomi Foyle
' fervent, lyrical, distinctive' - Poetry Book Society

and speakers including
Irving Weinman
novelist and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaigner

All proceeds will be used to buy a violin and much-needed educational materials
for the children of Gaza, to be hand-delivered by Elle and Naomi when they participate in the Gaza Freedom March Dec 31st 2009. This is an international march to resist the
on-going Israeli siege of Gaza, which is preventing official imports of reconstruction materials, school supplies and food reaching the Palestinian people.

Come and join us at the Benefit Gig to hear more about the Gaza FM!

Sunday December 6th
The Hope, 11 Queen's Rd
(straight south of Brighton Station)
£7 / Doors open 7pm