Members of Kodaline, All Tvvins, Ham Sandwich and JJ72 are among the Irish musicians who are joining forces to play Nirvana's landmark album Nevermind in full in aid of Women’s Aid and to mark Nollaig na mBan this January in Dublin.
Presented by gig promotors u:mack, Nirvana Night - Nevermind in full for Women’s Aid takes place on Saturday 6 January at the Button Factory, Temple Bar and will feature a core band of Caoimhe Hopkinson on bass, Lar Kaye (Adebisi Shank, All Tvvins, The Coronas) on guitar, Lewis Hedigan on drums and Micheal Owens on guitar, with further guests to be announced.
Tickets for Nirvana Night - Nevermind in full for Women’s Aid are available here.
The band will be joined by a different vocalist for each song, and among those performing are Maria Kelly, Mark Prendergast (Kodaline, Man Alive), Mark Greaney (JJ72), Roy Duffy (Squarehead), Conor Adams (All Tvvins), Niamh Farrell (Ham Sandwich) and Matt Hedigan (No Spill Blood), with more guests to be announced.
Figures released by Women’s Aid show that of the two million women over the age of 15 in Ireland, a quarter of them - 500,000 women - will face coercive control, physical, sexual, emotional or economic abuse from a current or former partner.
Nine in 10 women who have died violently in Ireland have been killed by a man they knew. Over half were killed by an intimate partner or ex-partner.
Every five minutes someone reaches out to Women’s Aid for information and support.
In a statement, Women’s Aid said, "Every woman should have the right to live free from fear and to be safe.
"Women’s Aid exists to create an equal Ireland with zero tolerance of domestic abuse, and all forms of violence against women. Everyone has a vital role to play in creating the fundamental social change needed across society to achieve this.
"Only then will our sisters, daughters, granddaughters and great-granddaughters not have to endure the pain and suffering of abuse. Support Women’s Aid to end violence against women."
For more information on Women’s Aid, or to donate now, see here.
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