DEEP PURPLE Keyboardist Ready For Charity Gig

June 3, 2006

The U.K.'s Cambridge Evening News has issued the following report:

Keyboard player Don Airey may be in the middle of a world tour with DEEP PURPLE — but he is just as happy performing in front of a few hundred people at a charity concert in Great Gransden.

The Gransden Blues and Soul Charity Concert on Saturday, July 1 is particularly close to Don's heart because he started the event to raise money for Addenbrooke's Hospital. It was as thanks for the care given to his son Michael, who was treated for a serious illness aged 12. Michael, now 25, recovered and is Don's keyboard technician.

Don, who lives near Gransden, said: "We started doing it when my son was ill. I was asking the hospital if anyone was raising funds for them and all they were getting was the Scouts raising the odd £20 so I said I would put on a show, which raised £1,000. We have raised more than £30,000 now."

Top musicians have taken part in the show in the past, including Bluntisham's Terry Reid, Bernie Marsden and Micky Moody from WHITESNAKE and JAMIROQUAI guitarist Rob Harris.

Read the entire article at www.cambridge-news.co.uk.

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