DJs, MUSICIANS & SINGERS WANTED
TO HELP RAISE £1m FOR CHARITY
Liverpool cake artist David MacCarfrae is usually seen creating masterpieces out of icing at his shop David Cakes of Distinction in College Road, Crosby. However, now David who has formed David Cakes Productions Ltd, has come up with a mammoth challenge to raise £1 Million for the charity ‘We are Macmillan Cancer Support’ with which he is appealing for help from DJs and Musicians to create an online charity fund raising album.
“Music has always been a passion for me as I am sure it is for others and now I want to bring together everyone’s love of music to help raise much needed funds to support the wonderful work of Macmillan Nurses.”
Although David Cakes had supported Macmillan for 25 years, like many people, he wasn’t fully aware of the impact this vital support has until it’s needed. It was in 2002 that his dad, Roy, was diagnosed with cancer and sadly died on April 29th of that year. Roy fully supported David, who always thought his Dad would live to see the musical dream become a reality. Having composed the title track ‘Forever Free’, David donates all royalties of this music to Macmillan.
This new project will give budding as well as established musicians and DJs the opportunity to record their own version of ‘Forever Free’. “The more mixes, from different genres, the better from Opera to Rock, from String quartet to Club mixes, everyone and anyone can participate for free – all that you need to submit a is a mp3 recording of your version of ‘ Forever Free’
All the tracks will then be made available for download and the track with the greatest number of downloads will receive the opportunity to perform live at a prestigious venue”
David feels that this project is his, and may also be other people’s, way of making a tribute their loved ones. “This is a fantastic opportunity to unite music lovers of all tastes whilst doing what they love best” said David.
When David composed “Forever Free”, he was looking for a female artist to sing it and Claire Lomax who was 19 at the time, sang the song live at Liverpool’s Matthew Street Festival in August 2002. Two versions of the single were recorded and produced by David and Billy Kinsley (Liverpool Express/ The Merseybeats) had its first play on BBC Radio Merseyside in April 2003 when David and Claire were interviewed by Roger Phillips.
Ironically in 2008 Claire herself was diagnosed with cancer “and at one stage we thought we would lose her” recalls David. Claire’s illness was the deciding factor to really motivate this project which Claire, who is now fortunately in remission, fully supports along with ‘We are Macmillan Cancer Support’
TO PURCHASE YOUR COPY OF CLAIRE'S VERSION OF ‘FOREVER FREE’ TELEPHONE DAVE ON 0151-931-3331 OR CALL INTO DAVID CAKES OF DISTINCTION, DURING SHOWROOM OPENING HOURS - MUSIC DOWNLOAD COMING SOON
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT MACMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW
