Ariana Grande Brings Message of Defiance to Concert for Manchester Victims
By CHRISTOPHER D. SHEAJUNE 4, 2017
GREATER MANCHESTER, England — The message onstage and in the crowd at "One Love Manchester," a benefit concert for victims of the Manchester attack
that was hosted by the pop star Ariana Grande, was one of defiance.
lenced, Manchester!" and Ms. Grande thanked the crowed for being "strong and unified." "I think
that the kind of love, the unity that you’re displaying is the medicine that the world really needs right now," she said. that We will not be si
"We’re going to go to this concert, we’re going to have an amazing time, we’re going to enjoy life, we’re
going to sing at the top of our voices." "And we’re going to just prove them wrong," he added.
"You can’t stop it from living your life, doing what you want to do." Ms. Garner, who lives in central Manchester, added
that she had felt a community spirit in Manchester since the bombing: "It’s just so strong.
One in the group, James Ockerby, 25, wore a shirt dedicated to his friend Martyn Hett, who died in the attack,
and whom Mr. Ockerby described as "an icon." Mr. Ockerby, who was at the Manchester Arena concert, described sprinting from the arena and only later figuring out what had happened.
The event, at the Old Trafford Cricket Ground on Sunday evening, was Ms. Grande’s first appearance since a suicide bombing
at her May 22 concert at the Manchester Arena killed 22 people, including children, and wounded dozens of others.
