Robert Plant has paid £900 to play in a testimonial football/soccer match next year for the Wolverhampton Wanderers as part of a fund-raising effort for the Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
The Guardian reports Plant’s bid was part of total figure in excess of £8,000 collected for the hospital at a fund-raising dinner Thursday night.
The May 2014 testimonial match between the Wanderers and Sunderland is a tribute to newly-retired Wanderers’ captain Jody Craddock, who played for both teams in the Premiere League; his son, Toby, has been treated for leukaemia at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
Plant, who is currently working on a follow up to 2010's “Band of Joy”, has just launched a new 8-episode web series, “Zirka”, which documents his 2003 trip to perform in Mail and the Festival In The Desert.
"It was a journey of revelation — one of the most illuminating and humbling experiences of my life," explains Plant. "[The trip] took us from the scurry and bustle of our world into the homeland of the Tuareg, the Sahel of Mali, Timbuctoo, and north to Essakane. A journey that could only reinforce the power and the great gift of music across and between cultures. . . sharing outside of language."
Watch the first episode in the series here.
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