Hundreds of people have turned out in Dublin City tonight for the annual Christmas Eve busk in aid of the Dublin Simon Community.<\/p>\n
Oscar-winning singer-songwriter Glen Hansard kicked off proceedings from 5pm, outside the Gaiety Theatre off Grafton Street.<\/p>\n
The busk is now in its 15th year.<\/p>\n
A host of famous faces have joined it over the years, including Dermot Kennedy, Bono, and the Coronas.<\/p>\n
Speaking ahead of tonight’s gig, Dublin Simon Community Chief Executive Catherine Kenny said it\u2019s become a festive tradition.<\/p>\n
She said they are incredibly grateful to Glen Hansard, who was the brainchild behind the event back in 2010.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re incredibly grateful to him and all of the artists who lend their talents to us to help raise money to support our life-saving and life-changing services,” Ms Kenny said.<\/p>\n
“Christmas can be a particularly tough time of year for those experiencing homelessness. If you\u2019re in a position to help out, please consider donating to us while you enjoy our special Christmas concert.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of people have turned out in Dublin City tonight for the annual Christmas Eve busk in aid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-208965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}