The stars of
Grey's Anatomy showed off their singing skills on Sunday (18 March) for a
one-off musical performance of the medical TV drama.
Creator
Shonda Rhimes was joined by 10 cast members, including Chandra Wilson, Kevin
McKidd, Jessica Capshaw and Sandra Oh, for the live benefit concert at the
University of California, Los Angeles (Ucla).
It featured
11 songs, many of which were from the show's musical episode last March (2011),
and the event, hosted by Oh and Eric Dane, raised money for the Actors Fund, a
nonprofit organisation that provides care and services to entertainment
industry professionals.
Rhimes told
the audience, "I believe in the joy I get from watching TV, film and
theatre, and a $25 donation to the Actors Fund would be saying you believe in
the arts, too."
Source: Contact Music
Also reported
by Music Rooms and (in much more detail) by Hollywood Reporter
Update on
Speyside Sessions
Hollywood
star Kevin McKidd is producing charity album with Scots musicians
The actor,
from Elgin, has joined forces with musicians in the north-east to form the Speyside
Sessions collective in producing an album of Scottish folk music.
What began as
a casual folk music session with friends and family has become a major project
to release an album which will raise funds for the Save the Children charity.
Gathering at
Hogmanay, the musicians recorded the album in less than a week, with the help
of producer Nick Lloyd-Webber - son of Andrew Lloyd-Webber - and sound engineer
Bryan Tolland, known from Scots band Del Amitri.
A post on the
Speyside Sessions Facebook page reads: "In less than a week 29 tracks were
recorded with a huge variety and mix of performers, from local budding
musicians, phenomenal singers who'd never before recorded their voice and even
jaded folkies whom until this session, thought they'd hung up their mandolins
for good.
"The
joy, magic and spontaneity of this week has been captured forever on a
soon-to-be released album for charity."
The album is
expected to be released in June.
Douglas
Hamilton, Save the Children’s head of Scotland, said: "We’re delighted
that Kevin McKidd has chosen to raise funds for Save the Children through the
sale of the upcoming Speyside Sessions album.
"Kevin
has been a supporter of Save the Children for a number of years and we are
extremely grateful for the work he does for us.
"We look
forward to hearing the album when it is released in June."
McKidd was
brought up in Elgin and was a member of the Moray Youth Theatre, before he went
on to study engineering at the University of Edinburgh.
It was while
at university, and after joining the student theatre company, Bedlam Theatre,
that he decided to make the move into acting full-time.
He stars as
Dr Owen Hunt in hit US series Grey's Anatomy and has added his voice to the
upcoming Disney/Pixar animation Brave, set in the Scottish Highlands.
Source: STV
