The Great British R&B Festival 2024

To celebrate the tribute night, Colne Town Council and the Colne Blues Society offered special discounted tickets for the night, while they also welcomed Kyla to Colne to officially launch the tribute night earlier this year. Kyla said: “Me and my siblings have been trying to think of a way of celebrating our Dad’s life, and I happened to get a message from the people who organise the festival here in Colne suggesting that it might be nice to collaborate on a tribute to Victor at the festival this August. “I will be getting up and performing at least one song with each of the bands playing as part of the tribute, which will be unique and new collaborations. I will end the night by performing with my band and we’ve got a whole host of extra special guests who are going to jump up and play with us. “It will be a brilliant celebration of Victor’s career. It will be emotional but I just want to have a really good time and celebrate the music that he made and the man that he was.” Simon Shackleton, Festival Coordinator at Colne Blues Society, said: “I think it’s a fantastic concept that will bring lots of people to the festival. “There’s a lot of love for Victor Brox and Kyla in the blues community and there are lots of incredible blues artists based in Manchester that were associated with Victor, and we’ve got quite a few of them coming to play as part of the tribute. It is going to be something very special.”

The Victor Brox Tribute Night will take place at the Pendle Hippodrome on Friday 23rd August 2024 from 6:30pm.

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