Aim

Help me to support the Fringe artist and venue recovery fund by buying a ticket to the AJ Bell Fringe on Friday digital cabaret.

Join me for a 60-minute digital cabaret show on Friday 07 August at 9pm BST. 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 and ensuring they return to the festival in 2021.

Want to know little bit more about me? Here's my bio!

The working-class comedian of her generation, Suzi Ruffell has had five sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Festival with stand-up shows racking up critical acclaim from reviewers and audiences alike. In 2018 Ruffell recorded and released her show Keeping It Classy for Live From The BBC, with a clip gaining over 32 million views on Facebook.

Best known for her appearances on Live At The Apollo, Mock The Week, The Jonathan Ross Show, Roast Battle, Ultimate Worrier, Hypothetical, 8 Out Of 10 Cats, The Comedy Bus, Stand Up Central, Harry Hill’s ClubNite and Suzi Ruffell Live From The Comedy Store.

A regular on BBC Radio 4 shows including News Quiz and The Now Show, Ruffell also co-hosts the hilarious hit podcast ‘Like Minded Friends’ with Tom Allen. 2020 now sees Suzi hosting a brand-new radio show on BBC Radio 2 called Explicable Me, as well as launching her own podcast series, OUT with Suzi Ruffell, which celebrates the lives of LGBT+ people and coming out through interviews with star studded guests. 

Suzi continues on her UK-wide tour with Dance Like Everyone’s Watching, which was in the top ten best reviewed shows of the Edinburgh Festival in 2019.

Who’s joining me on Friday 07 August?

David O’Doherty
Tiff Stevenson
Magical Bones
Erika Ehler
Lost Voice Guy
Craig Hill
Elaine Davidson
Marcel Lucont
Diane Chorley
Gareth Waugh

AJ Bell Fringe on Friday

This funpacked digital extrazaganza will bring you a taste of the Fringe from the comfort of your own home. There will be a range of Fringe artists taking part 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 3rd September 2020