{"id":772567,"date":"2026-09-16T14:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772567\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T14:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:04:10","slug":"shropshire-singer-macy-o-fundraises-to-enable-stepdad-and-mum-to-marry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772567\/","title":{"rendered":"Shropshire singer Macy O fundraises to enable stepdad and mum to marry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The singer-songwriter has also been frequently seen busking around the West Midlands and had the chance to perform with Sam Ryder and Kaiser Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Along with working with his stepdaughter, Shorty has been using his music studio to help other young artists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Naomi, 57 and Shorty, 56 plan to get married at St. Mary&#8217;s Church in Leebotwood and have the reception at their home, in case her stepdad&#8217;s condition makes him too tired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Macy O said the family hope to raise \u00a31,800 on GoFundMe, but would need to raise \u00a33,000 to afford everything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have stripped back the budget everywhere we can, cutting corners and asking favours,&#8221; the musician said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have a company called Dangerous Sheep who have given us a fabulous deal on a marquee, food, drinks, a stage, tables and chairs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The singer-songwriter has also been frequently seen busking around the West Midlands and had the chance to perform&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-772567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}