{"id":18330,"date":"2019-04-18T16:04:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T15:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/index.php\/?p=18330"},"modified":"2019-04-18T16:04:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T15:04:52","slug":"preview-musicians-against-homelessness-at-the-donkey-saturday-20th-april-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/index.php\/preview-musicians-against-homelessness-at-the-donkey-saturday-20th-april-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview &#8211; Musicians Against Homelessness at The Donkey, Saturday 20th April 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Take a walk through the streets of our city and it impossible not to notice to rise in people sleeping rough and it is a problem that does not seem to be going away. One organisation that has set out to help in anyway they can is Musicians Against Homelessness. Putting on gigs throughout the country with musicians devoting their time and talent in order to raise awareness about the crisis our nation is facing and sorely needed cash that provides some comfort to those who have hit hard times.<\/p>\n<p>Leicester\u2019s famous Donkey Pub is playing its part and has collected some of the city\u2019s finest talent to perform in what is sure to be a great night of music. Classic rockers <strong>Midnight Dogs<\/strong> headline the evening, acoustic sensation <strong>Luke Broughton<\/strong> will be delivering his own unique style of emotionally driven beauty, voodoo punks <strong>Mystery Action<\/strong> will also be on stage along with newcomers <strong>Black Carrot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Musicians Against Homelessness takes place The Donkey, Welford Rd on Saturday 20th April. Doors from 8pm. Tickets are priced at \u00a35 available on the door.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1053563974850947\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The event&#8217;s facebook page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Take a walk through the streets of our city and it impossible not to notice to rise in people sleeping rough and it is a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/index.php\/preview-musicians-against-homelessness-at-the-donkey-saturday-20th-april-2019\/\" title=\"Preview &#8211; Musicians Against Homelessness at The Donkey, Saturday 20th April 2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":18331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[214,218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-214","category-gig-previews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Untitled2.jpg?fit=1800%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73uhX-4LE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27213,"url":"https:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/index.php\/gig-review-chambers-at-the-donkey-thursday-24th-february-2022\/","url_meta":{"origin":18330,"position":0},"title":"Gig review &#8211; Chambers at The Donkey, Thursday 24th February 2022","author":"Kevin Gaughan","date":"06\/03\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"with The Clarendons and Code Switch Theory The Donkey has always been a fantastic venue to host Leicester musicians and bands, and this night indeed delivered such a variety of acts. 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