Wigan Pride to screen live in your living room
The online event will feature music, poetry, entertainment, and inspirational speeches.
Borough band The Lottery Winners will return to perform a socially distanced set and Definitely Dolly, artist Dani Graham - who wowed the crowds last year with her Dolly Parton tribute - will this year be joined by brother Jordan Graham, for more classic songs.
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Pride committee spokesman Dan Bonney said: “We’re so excited to welcome all of our acts to Wigan Pride 2020.
“This year we had to make the difficult decision to take the event online but we’re really happy with the line-up we’ve put together.
“We hope everyone will tune in and join us on Friday night.”
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Dan said: “We wanted the event to go ahead this year in some form as recent events across the world have proved that sadly there’s still so much inequality to be addressed.
“It felt like a more important time than ever to promote our values of kindness and acceptance.”
The event will be presented by host Vic Cook and will feature acts including musician and Pride favourite, Josh Robinson, North West singer songwriter, Zha Olu and talents Kieran Gallagher and Kayley Hughes.
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Hide AdYoung people from Wigan Council’s LGBTQ+ youth group, BYOU, will also make their digital debut and the event will introduce original singer songwriter, Ella, 16, from Shevington, guitarist Jaydon, 17, from Bryn, playing under the name, The Guitar Shop, and performance poet, Oskar, 17, from Ashton.
While 17-year-old Jace, from Whelley, and Alix, 14, from Wigan will host and sign the young people’s section of the event on Friday.
Wigan Pride 2020 will be streamed from www.facebook.com/OfficialWiganPride and from the Wigan Pride YouTube channel from 6pm.
The event is led and supported by Wigan Council, Wigan Borough CCG, LGBT Foundation, and businesses and volunteers in the area.