Support Mental Health Awareness At The Bearded Lady's 'Struggling Minds' Charity Gig

Quality tunes for a cause will be on tap at The Bearded Lady in West End next week, when the venue holds charitable event Struggling Minds, raising funds for mental-health organisation Grow and featuring performances by an array of excellent local artists.

Leading the bill of acts set to soundtrack the night is in-form stalwart singer-songwriter Asha Jefferies; still riding the buzz around her sublime tune Honey, Save Me From My Falsehoods, she spent a spell in August on the road as support act to Ella Hooper — and hit the studio with new band Manuka Chill in September —  as well as newly announcing her Summer Solstice single plans. Most people tend to wind down towards the end of the year, but evidently not Jefferies; it's our gain, though.

Flanking Jefferies aboard the evening's line-up are indie-rock upstarts Sunhaus (replacing previous sign-ups Fight Ibis, who were forced to pull out as a result of "miscommunication between the artist and the organisers"), whose earworm Realignment made its way into our ears back in April, as well as QMA-nominated outfit Winchester, ascendant pop-rockers OJ Mengel and prog-rock three-piece Signals, who'll provide the warm-up set for the evening and get punters nice and lubricated for the rest of the night's responsibly minded revelry.

Struggling Minds will go down at The Bearded Lady next Friday, 14 October, from 7pm. Tickets are $10 at the door, but you have the chance to walk away technically richer for the experience, with the fine folks at West End's SWOP Clothing Exchange offering up a $100 gift voucher as a raffle prize for the evening.

See the Facebook event page for further details.

Grow was established in Sydney in 1957, and is a community-based organisation that provides help to Australians recovering from mental illness through a program of mutual support and personal development carried out through weekly 'Grow Groups' of 3-10 members.

There are now about 200 Grow Groups in Australia, with international offices in Ireland, the United States and Trinidad.

For more information about Grow, its history and its work, see the organisation's website.