Royal Albert Hall supports five concerts for Teenage Cancer Trust
Howard Lake | 10 April 2006 | News
The Royal Albert Hall and the Teenage Cancer Trust have put on a five-day run of concerts and workshops, from 4 – 8 April, to raise funds for the charity’s work.
This year’s acts included Robert Plant, Franz Ferdinand, Keane and Peter Kay. Acts in previous years have included Oasis, Paul Weller, Coldplay, The Who, The Stereophonics, Madness and Tom Jones
In addition, the Royal Albert Hall provided a range of participative music workshops for over 100 young people. In-kind donations from Yamaha and Gibson allowed workshop participants to access a wide range of live performance equipment from acoustic, electric guitars and keyboards to PA systems and amps.
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The Royal Albert Hall hopes to have provded access to musical education to 50,000 young people by the end of 2005.
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