Tin Pan Alley Festival

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The Tin Pan Alley Festival is a free one-day musical event held in Denmark Street, London, England, every third Sunday in July. The annual street festival has been running since July 2004 and so far has attracted up to 6000 attendees on the day.

Each year, eleven bands are selected to play at the festival. The organisers aim to pick artists who are on the verge of stardom, and give others the chance to be heard and recognised by a wider audience.

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The festival is held to support and encourage new music and helps provide a platform for newer bands to be heard by a live audience. The festival also seeks to raise support for UK homeless charities and has supported ‘Shelter’ and its ‘Million Children Campaign’ as well as Centre Point. Their aim is to increase awareness of the extent of poor housing condictions across London and the UK, and of the young children that suffer because of them. Funding for the festival is provided largely by a variety of corporate sponsors.

Denmark Street (also known as Tin Pan Alley) is steeped in musical history and is considered by many as the epicentre of the London musical community. Tin Pan Alley Studios is also based in the street, and boasts a recording history with several popular musicians having played there, including The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Small Faces, The Beatles, Elton John and Jimi Hendrix. The street and the surrounding area is home to numerous music shops and several live music venues.