Aim

I’m delighted to be selling tickets to the AJ Bell Fringe on Friday digital cabaret, in support of the Fringe artist and venue recovery fund

Join me for a 60-minute digital cabaret show on Friday 14 August at 9pm. The show will feature nine different acts and will go out live at 9pm, with tickets costing just £9 each (£1 less than the cost of the average Fringe ticket).

100% of the money raised by ticket sales on my project will go straight to the Fringe’s artist and venue recovery fund, helping artists who are struggling as a result of COVID-19 return to the festival in 2021. 

Whats my show all about?

Sadia Azmat is a British Asian comedian from London tackling sex, relationships and identity in her no holds barred style. Host of critically acclaimed podcast BBC Sounds No Country For Young Women -

nominated best new podcast British Podcast Awards 2019 presenter BBC Radio 2 ‘My Single Life’. As seen on Netflix, BBC 1, BBC Three, Channel 4.

‘Wonderfully subversive comedy’ Steve Bennett

‘A very funny and promising new comedian’ Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4.

‘Hilarious and insightful take on what it’s like to be a young Muslim woman’ Christina Lamb, Sunday Times

Who’s joining me on Friday 14 August?

The full line up for the show on 14 August is Jayde Adams (host), Laurie Black, Rachel Fairburn, Sadia Azmat, Daniel Sloss, Craig Hill, Donald Alexander, Travis Jay, Reuben Kaye, Fern Brady and Abandoman.

AJ Bell Fringe on Friday

This new digital show will showcase the festival across a range of genres, including comedy, cabaret, theatre and music. The show has been made possible thanks to the generous support of online investment platform AJ Bell, and is produced and curated by Lucky Cat & Michael Fraser, alongside production company Inner Ear.

Fringe artist and venue recovery fund

The creative industries have been among the hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak, with the Fringe community alone facing estimated losses of over £21 million. 

The opportunities derived from presenting work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe can be enormous; many artists book onward touring, build collaborative partnerships, find a new agent, get bookings for stage, screen, and film work. Many engage with a loyal and adventurous fanbase, earning income to support their year-round activities, or taking the chance to try out new work and ideas on audiences who are actively looking for something new. 

The impact of these lost opportunities will stretch way beyond 2020, with artists looking at a long recovery for their work to be seen on stage again, with the worry that many will be forced to leave the sector to earn a living elsewhere, with the impact far reaching.

All the money we raise from this project page will go to the central artist and venue recovery fund to support our return to the Fringe in 2021. 

This project successfully funded on 9th September 2020