Hello Syria! Joss Stone plays the world's most unlikely gig to a crowd of 70 in the war-torn country Singer Joss Stone was pictured singing to a crowd in Derik, north-eastern Syria The audience of 70 was made of two dozen uniformed Kurdish foreign fighters The singer was also accompanied by British war photographer Paul Conroy
By Ian Birrell for The Mail on Sunday
Published: 00:59 GMT, 3 March 2019 | Updated: 01:24 GMT, 3 March 2019
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When British singer Joss Stone, barefoot as usual, walked on stage and greeted the crowd, she began one of the strangest concerts ever, writes Ian Birrell.
For a start, it was 11am, an unlikely time for a show. Then there was the venue, a small hall in Derik, in the north-eastern corner of war-torn Syria.
Bizarrely, Friday's audience of 70 was made up of about two dozen uniformed foreign fighters with a Kurdish militia, along with five middle-aged women, some excited teenagers and a few curious families with children.
