{"id":26965,"date":"2018-03-06T15:36:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T15:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=26965"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:36:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T15:36:24","slug":"musicians-cds-help-homeless-project-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/03\/06\/musicians-cds-help-homeless-project-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Musician&#039;s CDs help homeless project in Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A MUSICIAN has made an album to raise funds for a Cardiff homeless charity.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bob Ross set up the group Musicians for Homeless last Christmas after deciding he needed to do something to help rough sleepers. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The group will this week donate 50 CDs entitled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Safe and Warm<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to Help the Homeless People in Cardiff. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI&#8217;ve been making albums for over 30 years, so I decided that a compilation album on CD was the best thing for me to do to help the homeless. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThree years ago I did a similar project about autism called Musicians for Autism to raise awareness and funds for local support groups,&#8221; said Mr Ross, 59, of Portsmouth. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Help the Homeless People in Cardiff is a group that collects clothes, blankets and toiletries to give to rough sleepers. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26969\" style=\"width: 830px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-26969\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/03\/h-t-h-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"830\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/03\/h-t-h-2.jpg 478w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/03\/h-t-h-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/03\/h-t-h-2-293x220.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-26969\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/03\/h-t-h-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"830\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/03\/h-t-h-2.jpg 478w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/03\/h-t-h-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/03\/h-t-h-2-293x220.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><\/noscript> Musicians for Homeless album, Safe and Warm being donated in Cardiff. Credit: Bob Ross\/Musicians for Homeless<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mr Ross is asking the Cardiff charity to sell the CD of 29 songs and poems for \u00a35 to raise funds.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Musicians for Homeless has already donated albums to 28 homeless projects around the country.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mr Ross asks artists to donate original recordings and poems for inclusion. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The founder then supplies and ships the CDs to homeless projects at his own cost. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rona L Topaz, a singer from London, contributed her poem <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Us and Them <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to Mr Ross.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I decided to contribute because I strongly believe the increase in homelessness is part and parcel of this government&#8217;s ideological decisions to keep the UK populace as desperate and as demoralised as humanly possible,&#8221; said Ms Topaz. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mr Ross is hoping to make a second album named <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moving On.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A MUSICIAN has made an album to raise funds for a Cardiff homeless charity. 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