Among the slew of lo­cal en­ter­tain­ers tak­ing to the dig­i­tal space to meet their au­di­ences is Free­town Col­lec­tive with their Free­town Thurs­day Con­certs. This vir­tu­al con­cert se­ries, cur­rent­ly pre­sent­ed via Face­book Live (@weare­free­town), has as its pri­ma­ry aim to help keep peo­ple con­nect­ed through mu­sic dur­ing the on­go­ing COVID-19 quar­an­tine pe­ri­od.

Ap­pro­pri­ate­ly ti­tled #Find­The­Con­nec­tion, the se­ries, orig­i­nal­ly host­ed on In­sta­gram Live when it took off in mid-April, has al­ready fea­tured a range of guest acts such as vo­cal­ists and mu­si­cians Marge Black­man and Richard “Sol­man” So­lis; top per­for­mance po­ets Alexan­dra Stew­art, Der­ron Sandy, Arielle John and Idrees Saleem; as well as lo­cal dance­hall artist Rheon El­bourne.

Lead vo­cal­ist and found­ing mem­ber of the six-piece band Muham­mad Muwak­il em­pha­sised that the con­cert se­ries “was found­ed on the be­lief that so­cial dis­tanc­ing ought not to equate to hu­man iso­la­tion. In the midst of the cur­rent chal­lenges, so­cial dis­tanc­ing and hu­man con­nec­tion can and must co­ex­ist.”

In part­ner­ship with bmo­bile, this week­ly, hour-long pro­duc­tion will con­tin­ue through Sep­tem­ber 2020 as a plat­form for spe­cial guest per­for­mances by lo­cal and re­gion­al artists as well as per­for­mances by the host band it­self, Free­town Col­lec­tive. “We’re invit­ing our fans, fol­low­ers and mu­sic-lovers every­where to #Find­The­Con­nec­tion so that, to­geth­er, we can #Fight­The­COVID with a healthy dose of up­lift­ing mu­si­cal vi­bra­tions from that spe­cial place in our hearts,” said Muwak­il.

Free­town Thurs­day Con­certs will be livestreamed on Face­book (@weare­free­town) on Thurs­days at 6 pm.

For more in­for­ma­tion about Free­town Col­lec­tive, vis­it www.weare­free­town.love.