Beats Beyond Borders

Clementine Arts CIC presents Beats Beyond Borders at Future Yard on Sunday 22nd June, raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians, Heart 4 Refugees + Save The Children Sudan.

Beats Beyond Borders is a one-day festival bringing together music lovers, activists, and humanitarians in a celebration of music, unity, and creative resistance. Taking place as part of Refugee Week 2025 – the world’s largest arts and culture festival celebrating refugees – this special event will stand in solidarity with refugees, asylum seekers, and the people of Gaza, and raise funds for humanitarian efforts at home and abroad.

Beats Beyond Borders will feature a line-up of artists, musicians, and spoken word performers from Liverpool, Wirral, and beyond, performing in solidarity with our causes.

This is more than a music festival – it’s a space for justice, compassion, and collective action, and showing solidarity with those impacted by war, displacement, famine, and systemic oppression.

Doors open at 1pm. Show finishes at 10pm.

Tickets available now on a Pay What You Feel Basis. 100% of the profits made from the event will go to charity.

Musicians performing include: Ellis Murphy, DBA!, The Balla, Tender Claws, Jessica Dives, Mia Mai, Arthur Layne, Broken Down Golf Cart, Credits, Grace Elizabeth Harvey – plus spoken word performances from Amina Atiq + Poems by Em and featuring guest speaker: Chantelle Lunt. Plus, performances by members of Heart 4 Refugees, sharing their poetry, rooted in lived experience. All performers and speakers are generously donating their time and talents free of charge in support of the three chosen charities.

Why It Matters

From Gaza to Sudan to Merseyside, people are facing immense challenges due to conflict, forced migration, and humanitarian crises. Beats Beyond Borders is an opportunity to use music as a tool for activism and kindness and a call to show our solidarity with refugees, asylum seekers and Palestinians.

About the Beneficiaries

Heart 4 Refugees

Based in Birkenhead, this grassroots organisation breaks down barriers faced by asylum seekers and refugees by offering:

• Weekly art therapy sessions
• A community kitchen and food parcels
• English classes and early years outreach
• A 3-day drop-in centre
• Sewing room, yoga, gardening projects, and children’s activities

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)

MAP delivers life-saving medical aid and builds long-term healthcare capacity in Palestine. They:

• Provide urgent medical response and complex hospital care for Palestinians
• Support Palestinian people with disabilities and trauma
• Offer mental health & psychosocial support to Palestinians
• Champion the right to health and dignity for Palestinians

Save the Children Sudan

With famine, conflict, and mass displacement devastating Sudan, Save the Children provides:

• Emergency medical care, nutrition, and vaccinations
• Access to clean water, shelter, and sanitation
• Child protection, education, and family resilience support

Belfast-born, Liverpool-based Tender Claws’ fuzz-heavy sound comprises powerful grunge-influenced outbursts and softer episodes, scattered with serrated guitar and synth elements. She’s inspired by the addictive hooks, affecting melodies and harsh tones of acts such as Queens of the Stone Age, PJ Harvey, Nine Inch Nails and Pixies.

Leading figures in Liverpool’s emerging music scene over the last twelve months, DBA! have fast become known for their unique chemistry and strong influences from the likes of Eels, Beck and Elastica. Having already showcased three lead singles (‘sinkorswim’, ‘D.P.D.’ and ‘Whisky’) from their debut extended release, the band have seen significant traction on the BBC 6 Music airwaves, with widespread support from key tastemakers including Huw Stephens, Craig Charles, Abbie McCarthy and Emily Pilbeam.

Grace’s music hangs somewhere between the melancholy, the holy and the innocent. Musing on faith in a faithless world, her debut EP showcases the Merseyside based songstress in her whimsigothic world of intricate guitar and sweet, conversational vocals. Grace’s cello playing on the record, alongside restrained piano and harmonium, frame the tracks, crystalline in their tenderness, sincerity and philosophical curiosity.

France, You’re on Your Own (apolitical), is the musical project of Mayan Jeroen and Ciaran Francis Dooley.

Their sound incorporates elements from folk and electronica, angsty vocals, and irreverent lyricism, delivering moments of blistering intensity and blissful integrity.

Drawing on the spirit of Liverpool and a sharp ear for melody, Dylan Robert makes music that connects – honest, atmospheric, and emotionally charged. With a name inspired by Bob Dylan and raised a few streets from John Lennon’s childhood home, he blends raw emotion with cinematic guitar work to create songs that feel both deeply personal and widely resonant.

Spacey grunge and fuzzy weird love courtesy of Broken Down Golf Cart.