Singers support Brighton statue of suffragette with benefit concert

Two acclaimed singers are hosting a concert to help raise funds for a statue in Brighton to recognise a prominent suffragette.
Liane Carroll and Claire Martin OBELiane Carroll and Claire Martin OBE
Liane Carroll and Claire Martin OBE

Claire Martin OBE and Liane Carroll will put on Double Standards – an evening of jazz and joy will take place tomorrow (March 4) in support of the Mary Clark Statue Appeal.

It will run from 7pm to 9pm at St George’s Church, on Saint George’s Road, with doors open from 6.30pm.

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A cappella group Women of Note and feminist punk band Siren will open the concert.

Tickets are £20 and are on sale via Eventbrite – double-standards-4mar.eventbrite.co.uk/ – and at Resident, in Kensington Gardens.

Claire and Liane will sing numbers by Waits, Mitchell and Bennett mixed with stylish reworkings of lesser known classics and new original material.

Mary Clarke was Emmeline Pankhurst’s sister and worked as a suffragette organiser in Brighton from 1909 to 1910. She died on Christmas Day 1910 of a brain haemorrhage following a police beating and forcible feeding in prison and was the first suffragette to die for the women’s right to vote.

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