Line-up for The Yasmine McClory Foundation’s music festival includes Leicestershire singer/songwriter Katie Rose, Grantham band the Dysarts, and Dark Mantra from Lincoln
Plans are well underway to launch a music festival in memory of a much-loved sister and daughter.
As reported in the Newark Advertiser last month, The Yasmine McClory Foundation was launched earlier this year in memory Yasmine McClory, of Sutton-on-Trent, who passed away suddenly earlier this year aged just 20 years old of a pulmonary embolism likely the result of her being 10 weeks pregnant.
The Foundation supports causes Yasmine was passionate about, including food poverty, LGBTQ+ mental health, children with learning disabilities, and medical conditions affecting quality of life, with her mum Annelie, dad Jason, and siblings Jess, 27, and Ev, 17, all on board to keep Yasmine and her legacy alive.
To boost funds for the Foundation, a music festival, ‘Yasfest’, is scheduled to take place to mark what would have been Yasmine’s 21st birthday on September 22, as music was such a big part of her life.
Yasfest will be held at Sutton On Trent sports club from 1pm onwards and entry fees will be going towards the Foundations’ work.
Among the acts performing are a number of her friends and alumni from the Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies where Yasmine studied, as well as Yasmine's boyfriend and father of her unborn child, Mark Henry, who plans to play one of the songs she always asked him to learn, but he sadly never got a chance to play it for her.
Leicestershire singer/songwriter Katie Rose, who has featured on BBC Radio Leicester’s Track of the Day, will also be performing, as well as Grantham indie rock band the Dysarts, Lincoln-based the Dark Mantra, and poignantly as will Blue Autumn, one of Yasmine's old bands who are reforming for Yasfest with her sibling Bam performing on vocals to fill in for Yasmine.
The full line-up for Yasfest can be found at the event’s Facebook page here.
On top of that, one of Yasmine’s favourite bands, As December Falls, have donated five bundles of merchandise to be raffled off to boost funds further, each containing t-shirts, posters and signed CDs – each bundle worth over £150.
Tickets for the raffle are £3 each to help raise money for the foundation’s current projects, including supplying food to food banks, funding counselling for the LGBTQ+ community, educating professionals on young adult health, and funding recreational activities for children with SEND.
The winners will be drawn on at Yasfest, and the draw will also be streamed online.
