Manchester’s finest female and non-binary DJs will be assembling this weekend for the annual Suffragette City party, which will raise thousands of pounds for charity.
Co-founder Kath McDermott, former resident at Flesh at the Hacienda, will be joined by the likes of Rina Ladybeige of the Social Service, Crazy P’s Danielle Moore, Andrea Trout and BB from Supernature for the event, taking place at the Brickhouse Social bar and Kable, the club space beneath, on March 5.
The party, now in its fifth year, will be the biggest one yet, having moved from previous venue The Refuge. The event was spawned from an photography exhibition by the Manchester Digital Music Archive in 2018, which coincided with the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the UK, and which championed women in the Manchester music scene.
It’s since become an annual party, raising money for various grassroots charities in the area. “It was just a one off launch of an exhibition, and we didn’t know if anyone would come,” McDermott told the Manchester Evening News. “But it was so good, and everyone went nuts for it.
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