Billy Bragg Changes Inmates' Lives Through Music
Published: 27/07/2010 by: By Tim Saunders > www.looktothestars.org
Rocker Billy Bragg is currently raising awareness of a charity initiative he set up to help change the lives of prison inmates through music.
The singer was at a special screening of a documentary – called Breaking Rocks – about the initiative in Glasgow last week. Bragg established his project – Jail Guitar Doors – in 2007 to mark the fifth anniversary of Clash singer Joe Strummer, who was well known for his charity work.
“In early 2007, I was looking to do something positive to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Joe Strummer when I received a request from a local jail,” writes Bragg on the project’s website. "Malcolm Dudley, a drug and alcohol counsellor at nearby Guys Marsh prison in Dorset, was utilising his skills as a musician to set up a guitar class as a means of engaging prisoners in the process of rehabilitation. Borrowing a guitar from the prison chaplain and repairing an old nylon-strung instrument found in a prison cupboard, Malc
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