What Amfo doesn’t acknowledge is that the Hall wasn’t always on the women’s side: in April 1913 Emmeline Pankhurst and her Women’s Social and Political Union colleagues were banned from the venue after a series of violent run-ins. The fight for women’s rights has never been easy.
Annie Lennox and friends at the Royal Albert Hall (Photo: Vianney Le Caer)
To celebrate and fundraise, Lennox organised this concert, held in the run-up to International Women’s Day, as an ode to sisterhood. BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year winner Ríoghnach Connolly opens with a poignant trio of songs, complete with mellifluous flute-playing. Later it’s all guns blazing for indie-rocker Nadine Shah, who speaks poignantly of how lucky she is to have a stage career as a Muslim woman.
It’s similarly strange to hear acclaimed photographer Misan Harriman, who introduces Lennox’s set, receive rapturous applause for declaring himself a “feminist ally”. Do we really still have such low expectations of men?
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Such an event is a weird one: the audience are there to see Lennox; Lennox’s aim is to fundraise for her charity. It’s a luxury to spend a night losing oneself to music – and one that should not be denied. But even these world-class performers can’t pretend music alone can cure the world of misogyny. Overall, the evening feels like it can’t decide if it wants to face up to the horrors of sexism, or escape it completely.
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