The Sheffield Women of Steel Statue appeal, supported by Sheffield Hallam, will reach its £150,000 target on 26 November with a spectacular folk concert in Sheffield Cathedral featuring the city’s most famous and popular folk artistes.
Martin Simpson; Fay Hield; John Tams and Barry Coope; Chris While and Julie Matthews; Roy Bailey; Ray Hearne and Nat Johnson and Friends are all appearing for free and between them they have won more than 20 BBC Radio Two Folk Awards, so the quality of the performances will be an outstanding tribute to the Women of Steel, some of whom will also be there.
The Appeal was launched to pay for a bronze statue to be erected outside Sheffield City Hall to mark the courage and achievements of the hundreds of women who keep the steel mills going when their men were away at the front in two world wars.
Tickets for the folk show are £18 (plus booking fee) online at www.sheffieldcathedral.org or from the Sheffield Cathedral Box Office.
More information about the appeal can be found at www.womenofsteeltheconcert.co.uk