Cape Breton musicians rally together following flood

The Cape Breton music community is pulling together to help victims of the Thanksgiving Day flood.

Parts of the region saw up to 250 millimeters of rain last Monday in less than 24 hours, which led to widespread flooding. Officials are still working to determine how much the disaster will cost but it’s already estimated to be at least $10 million.

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Musicians from the island are already planning a huge benefit concert to help those who lost everything, similar to the one held recently for victims of the Alberta wildfires.

“Before the waters had even subsided, collectively through social media, musicians were already putting together ideas and banding together with ideas on what to do to help out their communities,” said Steven MacDougall, who plays in the popular band Slowcoaster. “Anywhere from Port Hawksbury to New Waterford to Glace Bay was affected by this.”

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From Cape Breton himself, MacDougall says seeing the damage from the floods hit close to home.

“A lot of people, if not the majority of people in Cape Breton can be living in kind of economic dire straits already,” he said.

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“Maybe there’s people without insurance, maybe insurance isn’t going to cover a lot of the cost for repairs. This would be different if there was maybe a few people affected but there’s thousands and thousands of people that were affected by this.”

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The tentative date for the concert is Sunday, Nov. 27 at Centre 200 in Sydney. The goal is to collect as much money as possible to help people get back on their feet.

The event is being organized by Nigel Kearns and will go by the name FloodsGiving. There is already a GoFundMe Page set up, with a goal of raising $1 million.

More information about the upcoming event can be found by searching #FloodsGiving2016 in Facebook or on Twitter @floodsgiving.

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