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Dancing in the Dry Cleaners: Langworthy Live takes place this weekend

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The community festival is set to welcome singers, dancers, and musicians to perform in local shops and streets.

Taking place this weekend, the volunteer-led event will be held across a variety of venues on Langworthy Road and Liverpool Street.

From Silent Discos to Folk Duos, Langworthy Live hopes to deliver a wide range of entertainment in venues such as Langworthy Dry Cleaners and the Lash Lounge.

Festival Manager, Sam Pratt said: “It’s bringing together the local musicians and celebrating local businesses up and down the Highstreet. We want to bring joy and creativity into the spaces we already love, like the dry cleaners.

“It’s a great family atmosphere. Everyone’s welcome. It’s quite hard to describe the buzz but last year there was just people filling the streets, you don’t see that in Langworthy.”

The Festival has been partly funded by Salford City Council’s Community Grant Scheme, alongside Salford CVS and LifeCentre.

Pratt continued: “The death of the Highstreet across the country has really affected those places that are almost in the shadows of places like Manchester… Langworthy Road used to be this bustling area, but as businesses get harder in these types of areas.

“We want to show that actually there are these amazing businesses that are run by local people, for local people. We want to honour the community that’s there.”

Tickets cost £5, followed by a 50p booking fee. Every ticket sold goes towards supporting the LifeCentre, a Salford-based Christian Charity providing breakfast clubs, counselling and support.

LifeCentre’s Esther Lane said: “It’s great for us, not only for bringing the community spirit back to Langworthy Road but also getting to chat to people and raising the profile of our charity.

“The funds that are raised are brilliant because they’ll go towards allsorts of projects we do here or go towards starting new ones.

“Lots of people walk past us everyday but might not know why we’re here or what we do, so being able to chat is really good for us.

The festival is modelled on Chorley Live, an annual community event which began in 2017. Centred around supporting local business and charities, Chorley Live has previously welcomed over 12,000 attendees.

Levenshulme-based Harpist, Quincey Brown, said: “It is great to see the Langworthy Road area spring to life during this festival. Langworthy Live 2021 was buzzing with festival go-ers and a wide variety of performers.

“I played there last year. It’s a really nice spot to play – I like little spaces particularly because my sound is quite quiet, it makes a nice change to playing pubs and bars.”

Booked to play the Lash Lounge on Friday at 7pm, Quincey’s set promises to deliver sounds from soul music, to post hardcore punk. She continued: “I try and stray away from traditional sounds.

“I think it’s good for local artists as they’ve always been open for us to perform it’s a great platform and space to play somewhere a little bit different.

“It’s not every day you get to perform in a beauty salon or at the dry cleaners, which I think makes for a fun and unique experience.”

For more information on the event, visit the Langworthy Live website

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