'Raise the Roof' at St George's Hall with Special Concert This Month

A fundraising evening supporting the cityscape designers of the future is being staged at St George's Hall next week.

And Raising the Roof, taking place on Thursday 19 October, promises to do just that with a line-up of musical talent taking to the stage in the sumptuous Concert Room at the grade I listed landmark.

Raising the Roof is a celebration of global diversity through culture, and money raised from the event will help the ICCC International Student Design Fellowships supporting Architectural Leaders of the Future.

For the first time two prestigious ICCC Caring Citizen of the Humanities awards will be given on the evening for the good works of UK individuals. One of the awards will be presented by Assistant Mayor Councillor Nick Small.

A special reception will take place ahead of the evening where VIP audience members will have the chance to meet the artists while enjoying refreshments in the surroundings of the 160-year-old Lime Street hall.

The stunning line-up of talent includes Emanuel 'Manny' Perlman, a lyric tenor, composer, performing/recording artist, spiritual/civic leader, lecturer and World Ambassador whom legendary talk show host Larry King compared to a combination of Caruso and Mel Tormé.

He is joined on the programme by actress Kiran Sonia Sawar from the BAFTA-nominated BBC drama Murdered by my Father, Diana & I, and Black Mirror, a solo harpist, and Crescendo, the Bernie Whelan choir. 'King of Swing' Asa Murphy, the Chinese Pagoda Youth Orchestra and international artist, musician and composer Jez Colborne, who has a condition callEd Williams Syndrome, will also perform.

Alongside the individual performances, the event will pre-launch a charity single, Talk to Me, in aid of the Williams Syndrome Foundation in the UK. Williams Syndrome, a rare and randomly occurring genetic disorder which affects around one in 18,000 people in the UK and causes physical, cardiac and mental health problems, sensory, behavioural, social and processing issues and learning disabilities.

Raising the Roof is organised by Universal Inclusion.

IF YOU GO:

RAISING THE ROOF

St George's Hall, St George's Pl, Liverpool

Thursday 19 October

Time: 7:30pm (VIP drinks reception from 6.30pm)

Tickets: £45 (plus £2.25 fulfilment fee per order). VIP tickets £95.

Purchase in person at TicketQuarter, Echo Arena Liverpool, Kings Dock, Liverpool, online at www.ticketquarter.co.uk or on 0844 800 0410.

This unique neo-classical building is the centre of Liverpool's traditional cultural forum whose foundation stone was laid in 1838. It was built as a result of separate competitions to create a fitting space for the aspirational city to hold its music festivals and other assemblies and contains the vastly ornate Great Hall with its vaulted ceiling, Minton tiled floor, replete with maritime and civic symbolism and is also home to a massive pipe organ. The Small Concert Room at the Northern elevation of the Hall has been described as the 'Albert Hall in miniature' and is circular in design with a proscenium arch stage and is flanked by caryatids, female sculptural figures which are designed to give the impression of supporting the fine lace work of the iron balconies. Unusually, the Hall also houses the Crown and Civil Court which were working courts until the 1980s when the Court Service moved to new premises in Derby Square. The ground floor and basement levels also house holding cells for prisoners and the condemned cell. St George's Hall can lay claim to one of the oldest ventilation and air conditioning systems in the world, the workings of which can be seen in the lower basement level and throughout the Hall.

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