CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE
CLIMATE CRISIS AND WHAT TO
DO ABOUT IT

An event bringing together musicians, speakers and audiences in convivial settings where everyone is included.   Expect to be surprised, to laugh and possibly cry, to learn something new and maybe make new friends.

Previous concerts in this series have included hosts  and presenters
GEORGE MONBIOT
ALAN RUSBRIDGER
JULIET STEVENSON
and have taken place in venues
across the UK and France. 

This concert will include an interval for discussion, a presentation by Maggie Steed and an eclectic selection of music from Bach, Beethoven and Debussy through to Bob Dylan, Nina Simone
and Joni Mitchell. 

Funds from the concert go to climate organisations chosen by the audience.

Holly Cullen-Davies trained as a pianist at the Royal Northern College of Music and The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, winning the Bach Prize and an Emerging Excellence Award from Help Musicans UK in 2013.   She is also a qualified Suzuki piano teacher, runs Thula Mama choirs for parents with babies and sings in her family vocal trio Davies & Daughters whose debut album you can listen to here.

Holly founded Concerts Don't Cost the Earth in 2021. Over the last few years she has been active in the climate movement and working against Marcus's deportation order by giving interviews for newspapers, radio and television (including the Ham & High here).

Marcus Decker studied at Leipzig University and then trained as a jazz singer at the Budapest Conservatory in Hungary.
He has busked and hitchhiked through over 40 different countries and sailed across the Atlantic to Dominica in 2017.

As an activist in climate emergency mode he hung a banner over the QE2 bridge in 2022 and spent the following 16 months in prison for it, where he also set up and ran a choir for other prisoners called Singing Makes It Better.

He is fighting deportation by the Home Office.

Revenue  from the concert goes to
climate organisations chosen by the audience.

£25 | £20 | £15

MAGGIE STEED
actor / comedian

HOLLY
CULLEN-DAVIES
pianist / singer

MARCUS
DECKER
guitarist / activist

Maggie Steed graduated from Professional Acting in 1960s and has gone on to have a long and successful career on both stage and screen.

In 2017 Maggie joined the cast of Eastenders, and most recently appeared in Paddington 2, Fisherman’s Friends, Fisherman’s Friends: One and All, and Ten Percent.

Steed was also active in the Campaign Against Racism in the Media. She appeared in an edition of the BBC’s Open Door series on 1 March 1979 (with Stuart Hall) entitled “It Ain’t Half Racist, Mum”, criticising British television’s discussion and representation of immigration and racial stereotypes.[2]

She helped write and perform in the comedy benefit concert An Evening for Nicaragua, at the Shaftesbury Theatre, which was shown on British television in 1983.