Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham, 21 September 2022 |

On Wednesday evening 21 September, Gospel Bell featuring Donald and Richard were delighted to play at the iconic Kitchen Garden Café (KGC) venue in Birmingham at a commemorative event for the life of Alun Gunter. Alun was a lifelong activist for equality, diversity and social justice and so Donald decided to organise the event so that it coincided with United Nations World Peace Day 2022.

Donald pictured outside Fletcher’s in Birmingham, a bar and café complex that incorporates the Kitchen Garden Café live music venue

The Kitchen Garden Café is a vibrant music venue that hosts many leading UK and international folk music performers, jazz and other musicians and DJ events. It has been a music venue for a long time and legendary artists like the Incredible String Band have gone before this evening’s Gospel Bell duo! We also felt rather spoilt by the professional level PA gear assembled especially for us and our own sound and lighting engineer.

Donald and Richard pictured with Paul our sound and lighting engineer for the evening. Paul is holding an Apple iPad with a Mobile PA mixing program. We don’t normally have these luxuries – let along personal PA monitors and Paul to make everything sound good!

We would like to thank Brett, Andy and Paul from KGC for looking after us so well, El and Milo for their lovely musical support, the UNISON Birmingham Branch for their generous event funding and promotion and all of Alun’s friends and family who came along and contributed to such a memorable evening.