The live music and dining venue in St Paul's Square has teamed up with Chernobyl Children's Project UK and folk-rock legends Fairport Convention to present a charity concert on Tuesday, May 10 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the explosion.
The charity's Midland branch, which brings to the region over 300 children from the contaminated area of Belarus each year to stay with families for a health-giving break, will also be holding a candlelit vigil outside Town Hall Birmingham on Easter Monday.
A 20 per cent shortfall in donations this year has however put at risk many of the charity's activities in Belarus, where it runs vital services including orphanages, a respite centre for parents with disabled children, and an abandoned babies clinic.
Fairport Convention, one of the UK's most celebrated folk-rock bands, are taking time out from a nationwide acoustic tour to give an exclusive Birmingham concert at the Jam House, with all the proceeds from ticket sales going to the charity.
The 1960s band, best known for its album Liege & Lief which was voted the Best Folk Album of All Time in a recent BBC readers' poll, recently released its first new studio album for four years, Festival Bell, to coincide with its new intimately presented tour.
Dave Pegg, bass guitarist and the longest continually serving member of Fairport Convention, said: “We are delighted to be helping such a worthy cause as the Chernobyl Children's Project and really hope the audience will turn out in support. The charity concert is particularly special to me as I was born in Birmingham.”
Robin Johnson, spokesperson for the Chernobyl Children's Project UK, said: “The nuclear disaster in Japan has reminded the world of the effects of nuclear fall out, with the Chernobyl disaster continuing to result in children in the region being born with unprecedented levels of thyroid cancer, leukaemia and other genetic disorders.
“We applaud Fairport and the Jam House for staging this special music evening where we hope to raise as much money as possible to enable all our work to continue.”
The charity approached The Jam House following the success of a music evening it hosted for the 20th anniversary of Chernobyl in which Hot Property, a band made up of people from the local property industry, helped raise over £12,000.
John Bunce, Jam House General Manager, said: “The evening will present a great opportunity to experience one the greatest UK bands of all time while also supporting a vital cause. I hope as many music lovers as possible will support the event.”
Tickets are available, priced at £20, by calling 0121 200 3030 or booking online at http://www.thejamhouse.com/.
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