About our Organisation
A legacy
The charity has been set up in memory of Johnny Alfrey, a young musician who died suddenly from an unknown heart condition in June 2022 leaving friends and family devastated. He was in the prime of his life with huge aspirations to become a music legend. He was passionate about music and performance and we would like to extend his legacy to other young local musicians and performers in his name as a memorial.
A Successful Launch
Get Involved
Help organise our music events through our training for young people between 16 and 30
Or apply to perform at our annual awards event
Event training for young people
Get involved in our events
Through our Capacity Building program, we have the potential to make real and positive change. This is one of our key areas of focus here at Johnny Alfrey Music Memorial, and a source of much success for our organisation. Email us if you are interested in joining us.
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We welcome your donations, however big or small. All donations make a big difference to what we can offer to young people wanting access to events training, rehearsal space and, of course, our annual music events and awards.
Mission
The aim primarily was to create a legacy in Johnny’s name that will benefit other young people and the area in which he lived. Johnny was a talented musician who lived for music and died tragically aged 22 this summer from sudden cardiac failure despite being fit and healthy. He wrote and recorded his own music and spent all of his teens and early twenties in bands, playing locally and gigging with friends.
The music memorial has been set up by his friends and family. We have six trustees and seventeen members who have come together to make something special in Johnny’s memory. We want to create an event – a festival or multistage gig, in April 2023 and each year thereafter, which will provide a platform on which to showcase local new music and young aspiring bands alongside established bands who will pull in a crowd. By paying for professional well-known artists to endorse our event, our new musicians will share their audience and, increase exposure and come together as a music community with like minded people.
We want to bring a music event to Littleborough on a yearly basis to celebrate and create opportunities with locally sponsored awards. A bi-product of this will be support for local food stalls, crafts and sales. We will provide a retro feel with vintage clothing sales and retro vinyl record collectors selling goods. We also want an inclusive vibe with stalls promoting mental health awareness, LGBTQ support and a general community spirit which celebrates difference.
We have local business sponsorship already from SET-2-It who will provide billboards, retro-feel stage sets, lighting and décor. We are also working closely with another charity, Rockit Bolton who have an established recording facility for young people and will support us by providing stage crew and sound equipment for our first event.
In the longer term we have a vision that our young members could be trained in sound and event production and management as well as promotion and business management. They will then become the annual creators of the event, gaining valuable workplace skills and maybe creating opportunities to enter the music industry. If our events make enough profit, we would love to build a recording space for young people to use locally to create their own sounds.
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