“There is so much untapped creativity among these men.'
Jill Brown sings at Barlinnie Prison: “There is so much untapped creativity among these men... many of them were never given the opportunity to make something of their gifts."
In the seats below are sat men whose crimes have been considered sufficiently serious for their time to be spent inside Scotland’s hardest and most forbidding prison. As Bernard begins to sing I check around to see if any of them are also wiping their eyes furtively. The concert has been organised by the Scottish singer/songwriter, Jill Brown who also operates her own PR firm. She’s a former STV broadcast journalist who quit her job more than 20 years ago, partly because it left her feeling that this wasn’t what she was meant to do.
“Perhaps if they’d had then their lives might have had better outcomes. My hope is that by giving them a platform and an opportunity to sing and make music they might have something to cling on to in their darkest moments and also when they try to make a life for themselves at the end of their sentences.”
These men tend to know fakery and inauthenticity when they see it, a skill that can be the difference between life and death on the street. And they know form years of working with her that this woman is the real deal and that there’s no judgment in her soul.
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