Bridport Refugee Support Campaign presents: Joe Solo (Friday 30 May)

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Bridport Refugee Support Campaign

presents

Joe Solo

plus Dorset Red & Dylan Ross

Friday 30th May 2025

7.00 – 10.30 pm

Bridport WI Hall, North Street, Bridport

Tickets £10 + 50p booking fee from Bridport TIC, £12 on the door

Bridport Refugee Support Campaign will be bringing acclaimed singer songwriter Joe Solo to Dorset in May as a fundraising event.

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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 its work to support refugees in the town.

Supporting Joe on the night will be Bridport’s socialist choir, Dorset Red, and Bridports 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!”

The show takes place in Bridport’s WI Hall with doors at 7.00 pm and there will be a bar (and probably a raffle).