Ahana tenderly invites you to join her and some sweet friends for a concert in aid of her very own vocal cords, the story of which can be found here.

Tickets are sliding scale, beginning at £11 (+ booking site fee), and surplus made from higher price bands will go towards mutual aid for Sudanese families escaping genocide. There will also be merch from Brighton Queers For Palestine, raising funds for the local Palestinian diaspora wellbeing group.

A message from Ahana:

'When you arrive to the show, you will be offered pencil and paper. The invitation is for you to write or draw something, anything, about your voice and bring it up to the stage. During my set, I may look at the papers, sharing the offerings of those who consent. In this way, the night will be even more deeply imbued with you. We'll witness one another and make an altar of voice, to voice. 

Later, when we have all gone home to our beds, I will make fire and prayer for the voices, for their strength. My heart hurts at the stifling and severing of voices we are seeing the world over. This concert, I hope, will be a small suture in our belief in the power of a voice that is rested, resilient and risen with others.'

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Ahana: 'Ahana's music treads a confluence she finds bewildering; where East meets West, soma seeps through soul, and the mystical mingles in the material. Currently she is in the mixing phase of her first album — a collection of folk-inspired love letters to the body, the most insistent of her muses.'

Tash Gilbert: 'If my sound were a child, it would be the IVF baby of Tash Sultana and Rag n Bone Man. Try to then imagine it spending a few years in a forest cabin with London Grammar & Bon Iver. In short, it’s blues rock meets emotive indie. I’ve been playing guitar for 26 years, and using the same blue electric Yamaha for 22. I love to belt, get raw, and then get tender.'

Annie Elliot: 'Touching on the rawness of deep emotions, inspired by jazzy, soulful, folk and dub influences; Annie Elliott’s music grew from the free flow of intimate nights spent around campfires with friends. Her music often grows from a place of midnight writings. Using her mellow, soothing vocals accompanied by guitar she also experiments with loops, soundscapes and improvisation to take you into the elements and deep feeling spaces.'

in water: 'in water is the project of JJ Juson, a Brighton based singer-songwriter and game designer. Their first EP, Magical Thinking, was released in February; dreamy shards of memory pulled from a past in parallel, delivered through lush harmonies and little guitar plucks. They'd love to meet more people to jam and write with!'